In the past five years, book bans in the United States have been rampant, wreaking havoc on libraries and schools and impacting authors and readers. I’m a neighbor of Rutherford County, which is in the middle of its own book banning controversy, where, after months of controversy, the library board fired director Luanne James for refusing to move children’s books into the adult section.
Rutherford County is just one of many communities across the U.S. dealing with book bans. From big cities to small, from the U.S. to military regimes, these five graphic novels grapple with the personal repercussions of book bans. What they all show is that oppression often begins with the power of controlling what people read.
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