Why parents still try to ban 'The Color Purple' in schools

Here's how The Color Purple became one of the nation's most banned books—and why it continues igniting controversy to this day.

Parents are the most common group attempting to remove the novel from schools. There have been different reasons for the book being banned ...

“The Color Purple” by Alice Walker has been banned in schools all over the country since 1984, due to its graphic sexual content and ...

These bans and challenges arise from the fear that The Color Purple and other works hold a mirror up to those who attempt to ban the book. That ...

Generally, The Color Purple doesn't belong in a high school curriculum. 14-16 yr olds are not prepared emotionally to grapple with the story.

The book was banned for its sexual content and situations of abuse and domestic violence. This book is a historical fiction about a 14-year-old ...

Excerpts from 'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker were sent to school officials by a concerned parent late last month. Those excerpts have ...

Challenged in Fairfax (VA) school libraries by a group called Parents Against Bad Books in Schools for “profanity and descriptions of drug ...

The 10 most challenged include The Catcher in the Rye, The Color Purple and even To Kill A Mockingbird. "I was shocked that anybody would ...

Objection to critical race theory (CRT) being taught in schools and so-called religious blasphemy could be to blame for the banning of "The ...

When we say removing books like The Color Purple—like Beloved, like The Bluest Eye, like I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: all of which have been ...

Pomperaug High School in Southbury, Connecticut banned it in 1995 because sexually explicit passages “aren't appropriate high school reading.” ...

Parents should be the ones to say to the child , NO I do not want you to read this, not the library, not the school and certainty not the state.

Days later, its source material, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel by Alice Walker, was permanently removed from schools ...

The Color Purple is one of those many books that have been removed from school libraries for multiple reasons.

36. Kelly Jensen, "Most Parents Want School Libraries for Their Children–but with Restrictions," bookriot.com, Dec. 20, 2023. 37. American ...

Doug Ducey signed a law, in 2022, that banned several books—including the Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker and All ...

Parents need to know that Alice Walker's The Color Purple is a moving, inspirational novel told in letters that include an abundance of ...

When Alice Walker published “The Color Purple” in 1982, it quickly attracted acclaim as well as controversy. It won the Pulitzer Prize for ...

I remember feeling, and understanding, the fear that drove some parents in the schools to wish to ban The Color Purple. I realized, given ...