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More than 50 years after a North Dakota school district burned copies of Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Slaughterhouse-Five,’ the anti-war novel is still being censored
The district removed the anti-war novel after a unanimous vote, and a later Supreme Court case said schools cannot ban books for their ideas.
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The Daily AdvanceMore than 50 years after a North Dakota school district burned copies of Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Slaughterhouse-Five,’ the anti-war novel is still being censored
In the fall of 1973, North Dakota's Drake school district burned 32 copies of Kurt Vonnegut’s 'Slaughterhouse-Five' in a school furnace. Kristina Kokhanova/iStock via Getty ImagesBruce Severy, a full-bearded, idealistic 26-year-old, moved from Southern California in 1973 to the small town of Drake, North Dakota, where he had accepted a job teaching English at the public high school. He, his small family and their menagerie of pets settled into a…
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