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From: holder@druhi.UUCP (HolderML)
Newsgroups: net.general
Subject: banned book week
Message-ID: <34@druhi.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 12:49:54 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 13 12:49:54 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Sep-85 07:10:07 EDT
Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver
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From Paul Hoefling:

>September 16-22 is National Banned Book Week.
>
>National Banned Book Week is sponsored by the American Association of
>Libraries, various publisher's organizations, author's organizations,
>etc.
>
>Banned books include such classics as Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer
>(racist), Shakespeare (sexual language, etc.), the dictionary (wouldn't
>want kids looking up all that foul stuff, would we ?), the Bible (various
>offenses).

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Can anyone post an "official" list of banned books to the net? (and reasons
for their banning?).  It would be interesting to see.

						Mike Holder
						AT&T-IS Denver, CO
						druhi!holder