Efforts to Ban Books Surging in 2022
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A new report says book banning efforts are part of organized political campaigns.
A nationwide effort to ban certain books from public school libraries has gained so much steam that more books have been banned so far this year than all of last year.
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Efforts to Ban Books Surging in 2022
Clip: 9/19/2022 | 9m 30sVideo has Closed Captions
A nationwide effort to ban certain books from public school libraries has gained so much steam that more books have been banned so far this year than all of last year.
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