{"id":11765,"date":"2022-08-24T10:16:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T14:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=11765"},"modified":"2022-08-24T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T14:20:00","slug":"bending-toward-justice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bending-toward-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books 2022 &#8211; Bending Toward Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"marsha-row mt-4 mb-4 flex flex-wrap -mx-2 lg:-mx-6  justify-start border-0 border-gray-100 first:mt-0\">\n\t\n<p><!-- *  START LEFT COLUMN  *--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-3\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<h2>Links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a id=\"current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2022\/author\/\">2022 Author<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2022\/title\/\">2022 Title<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/\">Banned Books Home<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><hr \/><\/p>\n<h2>Cover<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2022\/08\/bending-toward-justice.jpg\" alt=\"bending toward justice cover\" width=\"1400\" height=\"2003\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2679\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mulibiiidb.marshall.edu\/record=b1566683~S12\">Held at Marshall University (Drinko &#8211; KF4893.M39 2013).<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- *** ** END LEFT COLUMN ** ***-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p><p><!-- *** ** START RIGHT COLUMN ** **--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-9\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<p><strong>Marshall University does not ban books!  The information is provided to let people know what has been banned\/challenged elsewhere.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>2022<\/h2>\n<p>The Lafayette (LA) Public Library Board voted 5-2 to reject a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH) which would have provided funds for two facilitators and the purchase of copies of <strong>Bending Toward Justice<\/strong> by Gary May and <strong>Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All<\/strong> by Martha S. Jones. The grant was part of LEH\u2019s \u201cWho Gets to Vote?\u201d library reading and book discussion program &#8220;intended to engage members of the general public in conversations on the history of voting \u2014 and efforts to suppress the vote \u2014 in the United States.\u201d  The library board rejected the grant for not representing \u201cboth sides\u201d of the issue of voter suppression. State Senator Gerald Boudreaux called the board\u2019s actions \u201cincomprehensible\u201d in a statement proclaiming that \u201cthe other side falls in the category of \u2018Jim Crow Laws\u2019 and the \u2018KKK.\u2019\u201d  Senator Boudreaux said he was working to help the University of Louisiana at Lafayette\u2019s DuPre Library secure the funding that had been intended for the Lafayette Public Library so the book discussions can still take place in the community.<\/p>\n<h2>On These Pages<\/h2>\n<p>A <strong>Banned<\/strong> book has been removed from a library, classroom, etc.<br \/>\nA <strong>Challenged<\/strong> book has been requested to be removed from a library, classroom, etc.<\/p>\n<h2>For additional information contact<\/h2>\n<p>Ron Titus, <a href=\"mailto:titus@marshall.edu\">titus@marshall.edu<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"tel:304-696-6575\">304-696-6575<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Last updated<\/h2>\n<p>August 24, 2022<\/p>\n<p><!-- ** ** END RIGHT COLUMN *** *-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<p><!-- *** * END FULL PAGE DIV * blocked in the processing de*** --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":784,"featured_media":0,"parent":2039,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11765","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11765"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11769,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11765\/revisions\/11769"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}