A federal judge in Texas ruled that at least 12 books removed from public libraries by Llano County officials, many because of their LGBTQ+ and racial content, must be placed back onto shelves within 24 hours.
Books ordered to return to shelves include “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” by Isabel Wilkerson, “They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group” by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, and “Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen” by Jazz Jennings.
US District Judge Robert Pitman said in the order that the library system also is required to reflect these books as available in their catalog and cannot remove any books for any reason while the case is ongoing.
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