Harry Potter and the Cedarville Censors

Inside the Precedent-Setting Defeat of an Arkansas Book Ban

By Brian Meadors

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Publish Date

2019

Publisher

McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers

Language

eng

Pages

207

Description:

"In 2002, the Cedarville School Board in Crawford County, Arkansas, removed Harry Potter books from library shelves. These were unanimously approved by a committee. Dakota Counts and her father Bill Counts sued the school district in Federal court. This book details the origins of the ban and the civil procedures and legal arguments that restored the First Amendment"--

subjects: Rowling, j. k., 1965-, School libraries, Libraries, censorship, Trials, litigation, Law and legislation, Libraries, Censorship, Trials, Cedarville School District (Ark.), Harry Potter series (Rowling, J. K.)