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Yvonne ‘looks undocumented’1d ago

@wdlindsy I’d love to know what Tre Hargett reads….maybe the state of TN won’t mind if we access his library card.

"Also destroyed were the works of Heinrich Heine, a writer of Jewish descent, who a century earlier had foreshadowed the hell to come: 'Where they burn books, they will ultimately also burn people.'"

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"Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann, Sigmund Freud and Wal-ther Rathenau, Stefan Zweig, Erich Maria Remarque, and Hermann Hesse were among the authors whose names were read aloud in a litany of protest against those who defied 'the national will to live.' The mob threw hundreds of volumes — seized from libraries, synagogues, and churches — onto the massive fire."

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"On the evening of May 10, 1933, the first day of the summer semester, students and professors joined members of the local Sturmabeilung around a bonfire at the Opernplatz in the shadows of the Humboldt monument."

~ Charles Marsh, Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (NY: Knopf, 2014), p. 174, on the bonfire of books the Nazis organized in Berlin in May 1933

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"Hargett suggested that libraries that made such books available to children were violating federal and state law. Some libraries have closed for days so staff could focus on weeding out prohibited volumes."

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"One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes or characters."

~ Rebecca Crosby and Noel Sims

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Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge

One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes or characters.

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Peter Riley 2d ago

Thanks @Natasha_Jay
Newport Public #Library 📚 banned books staircase.

The #mural was created by artist #GaryMHerd of #Kraken Studios as part of #BannedBooks Week celebrations.

https://pen.org/book-bans/pen-america-book-ban-index-data/

Peter Riley 2d ago

Book Ban Index

PEN (originally short for Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, and Novelists) was founded in London in 1921 to promote friendship and international co-operation among writers everywhere, and to defend literature and free expression wherever they are threatened…

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PEN America Book Ban Index Data

Book bans are a scourge of censorship across the country. Check for yourself using PEN America's Book Ban Indexes that have amassed this information since 2021.

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