Invisible Man Ban
September 26, 2013 by staff
Invisible Man Ban, A North Carolina school board lifted on Wednesday its ban of Ralph Ellison’s classic novel “Invisible Man” from school libraries after being ridiculed by residents and undercut by a giveaway of the book at a local bookstore.
The widely publicized ban by the Randolph County Board of Education in central North Carolina came after a high school junior’s mother complained that the sexual content in the book chosen for a summer reading program was “not so innocent” and “too much for teenagers.”
Five of the board’s seven elected officials agreed on September 16 to bar the novel, with one member saying he “didn’t find any literary value” in Ellison’s account of African-American alienation in the United States in the early 20th century.
But after a fierce backlash by hundreds of citizens, the board held a special meeting on Wednesday and voted 6-1 to put the book back on school library shelves.
“I felt like I came to a conclusion too quickly,” board member Matthew Lambeth said of his earlier vote to bar the book.
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