"Hargett suggested that libraries that made such books available to children were violating federal and state law. Some libraries have closed for days so staff could focus on weeding out prohibited volumes."
#Trump #Republicans #libraries #BookBans #LGBTQ #Tennessee
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"Hargett suggested that libraries that made such books available to children were violating federal and state law. Some libraries have closed for days so staff could focus on weeding out prohibited volumes."
#Trump #Republicans #libraries #BookBans #LGBTQ #Tennessee
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"On the evening of May 10, 1933, the first day of the summer semester, students and professors joined members of the local Sturmabeilung around a bonfire at the Opernplatz in the shadows of the Humboldt monument."
~ Charles Marsh, Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (NY: Knopf, 2014), p. 174, on the bonfire of books the Nazis organized in Berlin in May 1933
#Trump #Republicans #libraries #BookBans #LGBTQ #Tennessee #Nazis #Hitler #BookBurning
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