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BY Mildred Europa Taylor, 2:00pm May 26, 2019,

8 books by black authors you probably didn’t know were banned

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by Mildred Europa Taylor, 2:00pm May 26, 2019,
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Go Tell It On the Mountain

James Baldwin’s debut novel follows the story of a teenager, John Grimes, through the “complicated worlds of religion, sexual awakening and family in 1930s Harlem, New York.” The book has been used in schools since its publication in 1953, however, in 1994, it was challenged in a Hudson Falls, NY school because of its depictions of violence, rape, masturbation, and abuse of women. Black authors.

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