... the class room. On February 1, 1999, in West Marion High School in Foxworth, Mississippi, recent events aimed at censorship have occurred. The book, Fahrenheit 451, was on the reading list for several of the English classes, as was for mine. However, after a parent complained to the superintendent about the ... for censorship by parents or community groups? Countless censorship incidents throughout the country raise these questions. Not everyone thinks or even cares that books like Fahrenheit 451 are banned or taken out of schools. A professor once stated Bradbury's firemen set books on...

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... . This desire to read may cause underground or illegal circulation of literature. The circulation of illegal material could occur in schools or in public, as it did in the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury; books weren't allowed but people still had them and read them. Franklin D. Roosevelt claimed that even if we censor books they will never go away, "We all ... everyone are deciding that Blume's books are inappropriate for children to read. Holbrook Jackson notes, "Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice" (Quotes about Censorship). Jac...

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