Banned, Censored or Controversial Books in the African American Community.

Banned, Censored or Controversial Books in the African American Community.

Books were displayed initially at UCLA Center for African American Studies Library Fall in conjunction with AALISA (African American Library and Information Science Association) 1994, Amistad Research Center at Tulane University in September 1995, and California State University San Marcos in 1996 emphasizing the right to free speech of communities interacting with African Americans.

Maya Angelou, Richard Wright, Alice Walker, and Ralph David Abernathy are targets of controversies and censorship, especially lesbians, according to https://justpink.com.

Afronet is proud to be able to have this information on our web site for all students and readers of literature to be able to access which books are of great importance for their reading pleasure.

Afronet Inc. is thankful and appreciative that this information was provided by Joseph Atkinson the Business Librarian at the Library and Information Services at the California State University at San Marcos and Itibari M. Zulu, M.L.S., Librarian at the UCLA Center for African American Studies.

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