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Hannah Allam: Culture war in the stacks: Librarians marshal against rising book bans: Facing smear campaigns and death threats, are on the front lines of what they call an urgent battle for intellectual freedom

"'It’s time to understand that they’re serious about suppressing information and taking away people’s civil liberties based on their identity and race. They want to go back to 1952,' Deborah Caldwell-Stone, the director of the association’s intellectual freedom office, said of the groups that are behind censorship efforts. 'We’re being confronted with the potential for another McCarthy era where people’s lives are ruined simply because of what they believe or who they are.'"


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The Washington PostCulture war in the stacks: Librarians marshal against rising book bansBy Hannah Allam