Books challenged in and/or removed from schools and libraries

  • "Down These Mean Streets" – Piri Thomas
  • "Black Boy" – Richard Wright
  • "Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War
  • by Black Veterans" – Wallace Terry
  • "Daddy Was a Numbers Runner" – Louis Meriwether
  • "Blues for Mr. Charlie" – James Baldwin
  • "The Destruction of African Civilization and the
  • Origin of African Civilization" – Chancellor Williams
  • "The Color Purple" – Alice Walker
  • "And Still I Rise" – Maya Angelou
  • "Young Martin's Promise" – Walter Dean Myers
  • "Tar Beach" – Faith Ringgold
  • "Manchild in the Promised Land" – Claude Brown
  • "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone" – James Baldwin
  • "The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers" –
  • Langston Hughes
  • "Native Son" – Richard Wright
  • "Invisible Man" – Ralph Ellison
  • "Young and Black in America" – Rae Pace Anderson
  • "The Autobiography of Malcom X" – Malcom X & Alex Haley
  • "The Friendship" – Mildred D. Taylor
  • "Black Poets" – Dudley Randall

For more information on banned & challenged black authors, please click here to visit the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression website.