NPR: Efforts to ban books jumped an 'unprecedented' four-fold in 2021, ALA report says
Book banning is not new — in the U.S. alone the practice goes back to Puritan times, when Thomas Morton's book New English Caanan and others opposing this way of life were tossed from Massachusetts.
But the American Library Association said Monday that this year there have been more challenges to books than they have seen since they started tracking it in 2000.