Ban: To prohibit, usually through legal or social authority.
Book challenge: Documented request to remove materials, including books, from schools or libraries.
* Censorship: the changing or the suppression or prohibition of speech or writing that is deemed subversive of the common good.
* First Amendment to the US Constitution: The First Amendment reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
Offensive: Causing feelings of insult or strong displeasure.
Suppress: To hold back or remove from circulation.
Totalitarianism: A form of government in which the state is overseen by a strict, central authority that allows little or no deviation from the laws and rules which it imposes.
