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Who is the author of “Black Boy,” a 1945 memoir about the Black experience in America, which has been challenged for decades over profanity and sexual content — and which was originally part of a First Amendment case on Long Island that went before the Supreme Court?
- A W. E. B. Du Bois
- B Richard Wright
- C Ralph Ellison
- D James Baldwin
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From a 1976 article in The Times about the Long Island school board’s decision to remove 11 books from its junior- and high-school libraries:
The seven-member school board said the books had been removed because they contained material that was “offensive to Christians, Jews, Blacks and Americans, in general.”
