BBW-logo_07252021Did you know that J.D. Salinger's, "The Catcher in the Rye" is famous as the most censored, banned and challenged book between 1966 and 1975. Reasons given? It was considered "obscene" with an "excess of vulgar language, sexual scenes, and things concerning moral issues." 

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“Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.”


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