Many books in the 1950s had racial slurs that were not much of an issue, because the 1950s used to discriminate many colored people by their race. Recently many schools decided to ban many books due to reasons like racial segregation, sexual content violence etc. However, in the 1950s, many issues like communism was strictly prohibited back then along with other issues that have to do with race. To find my sources I went to gale and searched up book banning in the 1950s and i used three different texts below from the articles I got. Then, I decided to use these three texts from each of the articles because two of them mostly talked about decisions people came up during the 1950s and now with to decide whether they should ban books depending on their views of what’s right or wrong. This text tells us that there is no point in banning books because many kids these days are aware of sex, gender, violence etc. However the Keller high school is considering banning these types of books with sexual, violence or anything that could be inappropriate for the school district. “Several of the 41 banned books were later reinstated, but the point was made: if you look hard enough for something to be offended by, any book is fair …show more content…
Libraries stocked shelves with books like Fahrenheit 451 and 1984 that had previously been subject to bans. Students learnt about historical periods like the 1950s, when book burners fought against the freedom to read, while fake flames appeared around the volumes”(Gomez 2022). This sentence shows that Betsy Gomez is clearly against the idea of censorship and believes that people should have to read banned books. She even even talks about book burners in the 1950s who went against the right to