Harry Potter and the Cedarville Censors
Subtitle: Inside the Precedent-Setting Defeat of an Arkansas Book Ban
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781476674971
Subjects: Rowling, j. k., 1965-; School libraries; Libraries, censorship
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"--