Banned Books Week may have passed, but recently in Biloxi, Mississippi a public school pulled To Kill a Mockingbird from an eighth-grade reading list, according to The Washington Post.. The … I’ll admit it. To Kill a Mockingbird has a long history atop banned books lists, but here's a new reason: the 20th century classic about racism in small-town Alabama "makes … Banned Spotlight: To Kill a Mockingbird September 7, 2018 Betsy Gomez 1 Comment Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird has a long history with censorship. I’ll admit it. In the case of the Biloxi School District, the novel was banned due to its uncomfortable language. There was national outcry, with many citing this as a disservice to young readers due to the book’s nuanced account of many pressing social issues. Freedom of speech groups have protested against the removal of anti-racism classic To Kill a Mockingbird from a school curriculum in Mississippi.. It was an administrative and department decision, a member of … Critics accuse the school board of a confounding level of censorship. Biloxi School District pulls ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ from eighth-grade lesson plan. It holds the seventh slot in the American Library Association’s top ten most challenged and banned books list for 2017, and it … 21 of the Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books for 2000-2009, coming after other classics including Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” (No. Despite it being first published over 50 years ago, it has now been banned by a Mississippi school district as its language has been deemed to 'make people uncomfortable'. 17). The classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is considered a cornerstone of American literature and a foundational text in schools across the globe. The Biloxi, Mississippi School District has banned the American classic To Kill a Mockingbird after receiving complaints from parents due its … Since its publication, To Kill a Mockingbird has been banned in multiple school districts; however, it was mainly due to the inappropriate sexual nature of the novel as it follows a black man wrongly accused of rape. It holds the seventh slot in the American Library Association’s top ten most challenged and banned books list for 2017, and it … Mississippi School District Bans ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ The school district in Biloxi, Mississippi has removed 'To Kill A Mockingbird' from the … The classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird has been removed from the curriculum in a Mississippi school district because its language makes people “uncomfortable,” authorities say. Banned Spotlight: To Kill a Mockingbird September 7, 2018 Betsy Gomez 1 Comment Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird has a long history with censorship. “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction the year after it was published, ranks as No. News that a Mississippi school district has banned To Kill a Mockingbird was both amusing and concerning. In 1966, six years after the publication of "To Kill a Mockingbird," Alabama-born writer Harper Lee was informed, to her surprise, that her novel had been banned in a Hanover County school. When I first heard of the Biloxi, Mississippi junior high school board’s decision to stop teaching “To Kill a Mockingbird,” my first instinct was to rage against the same racism that would bring the book to the forefront of the banned book list as it had at its publication. 6), “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison (No. When I first heard of the Biloxi, Mississippi junior high school board’s decision to stop teaching “To Kill a Mockingbird,” my first instinct was to rage against the same racism that would bring the book to the forefront of the banned book list as it had at its publication. Amusing, because school districts have been banning the novel that takes on racial prejudice ever since it was published in 1960. "To Kill a Mockingbird," she learned, was considered "immoral" — and therefore "improper" for young American students to read. On Oct. 12, the Biloxi School District of Mississippi announced that it would remove “To Kill a Mockingbird” from its eighth grade curriculum. The group was similarly critical of a Mississippi school district’s decision last year to ban “To Kill a Mockingbird” from an eighth-grade reading list. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ removed from 8th-grade course in Mississippi ... “To Kill a Mockingbird” has sold more than 40 million copies since it was published in 1960. 15) and “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker (No.