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Hundreds show up to oppose Glen Ridge book-ban proposal

Clip: 2/9/2023 | 4m 52sVideo has Closed Captions

A group of residents had sought a ban on six books

The growing movement to censor books is playing out in a small town in New Jersey. Hundreds of parents piled into a Glen Ridge auditorium Wednesday night, most of them fiercely opposed to a proposal to ban six books from the local library.

02/09/2023

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