2022

August

Tuesday the 2nd

• Michigan Town Votes To Defund Library Over Inclusion Of LGBTQ Friendly Materials

  • PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT

Monday the 1st

• School District in Utah Removes 52 Books and Flags 32 More for Further Review Over "Parent Concerns"

  • PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT

July

Tuesday the 26th

• Polk County Schools Reviews Books, Requires Parent Opt-In To Allow Their Children Access to 16 Books

  • PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT

Friday the 15th

• Public Library Temporarily Close After Losing Most Full-Time Staff and 3 Directors Over LGBTQ Book-Banning Debate

  • PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT

April

Wednesday the 6th

• Marjorie Taylor Greene reports comedian Jimmy Kimmel to Capitol Police for telling a joke about her

  • PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT
  • 2 MINUTES HATE

  

March

Tuesday the 22nd

• Hamilton County District Attorney, Coty Wamp, Suggests prosecuting librarians for stocking "inappropriate" books

  • PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT

Wednesday the 9th

• Llano County Public Library Removes Banned Books From Shelves, Fires Head Librarian Suzette Baker for not complying

  • PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT

Monday the 7th

• Idaho House of Representatives approve bill to fine and jail librarians for providing "harmful" material to children

  • PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT

  

February

Saturday the 26th

• Wyoming pass budget amendment that eliminates gender studies at the University of Wyoming

  • PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT

Monday the 21st

• Neo-Nazis inturrupt Red Books Day reading at a Providence Community Library

  • VIOLENCE
  • PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT

Friday the 4th

• Douglas County Colorado's newly elected school board conservatives fire popular superintendant who supported mask mandates

  • PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT
  • COVID-19

January

Wednesday the 26th

• Wentzville MO school board votes to ban “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison

  • PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT
• McMinn County school board in Tennessee bans 'Maus' a Pulitzer-Winning graphic novel about the Holocaust

  • BIGOTRY AND HATRED
  • PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT
  • ANTISEMITISM
• Dr. Bill Nolte, Superintendent for Haywood County Schools, pulls MLK-themed novel 'Dear Martin' without reviewing the book

  • PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT
• Ironically named right wing group 'County Citizens Defending Freedom' gets 16 books removed from school libraries

  • PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT

Tuesday the 25th

• School officials of an Athens Georgia elementary school remove students 'Gay is Ok' artwork, comparing it to a Nazi flag

  • PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT
  • BIGOTRY AND HATRED
  • ANTI-LGBTQ

Wednesday the 19th

• Florida Republicans "anti-woke" bill that would allow parents to sue schools for teaching about racial discrimination passes House

  • PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT

Tuesday the 18th

• School board for Granbury Independent School District establishes committee to review the books in the district's schools

  • PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT

2021

November

Monday the 29th

• Canyons School District Removes 9 Books Against Policy After A Single Parent Complaint

  • PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT

Friday the 12nd

• ‘Moms For Liberty‘ group offers bounty to reward parents for turning in teachers who violate anti-divisive subject matter law

  • PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT

October

Tuesday the 26th

• Texas Rep. Matt Krause Makes List of 850 Books For Schools and Students to Ban

  • PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT

  

June

Thursday the 10th

• Florida department of education passes rule banning the teaching of "critical race theory"

  • PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT