Efforts to ban books gathered pace rapidly this past year, with hundreds of titles cut across thousands of schools — often those tackling ‘culture wars’ issues like , sexuality and race, a study shows.There were 2,532 instances of individual book bans affecting 1,648 titles at some 5,000 schools with 4 million students in the 2021-2022 school year, the anti-censorship group PEN America said in a on Monday.The group described a push by politicians and newly-formed parents' organizations to pull texts from school libraries that it compares to the anti-communist McCarthy era and 'Moral Majority' purges of the early 1980s.
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