War of words: The fight over banning books
CBSN
"Catch-22," Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle," "The Great Gatsby," Toni Morrison's "Beloved," "Lord of the Flies," "To Kill a Mockingbird" ... classics, and every one of them banned in some places. Said Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom, "There was somebody who objected to the profanity, or the challenge to the status quo."
The Chicago Public Library put them on display, in defiance of efforts nationwide to ban books.
Caldwell-Stone's job is to know what's being targeted: "LGBTQIA books. Books [opponents] deemed to be critical race theory, but were actually books on the history of race, racism, slavery in the United States, or representing Black voices, were overwhelmingly being targeted by these demands to remove books."
