The Nation - News from Aug. 28, 1987
People for the American Way said that despite major legal victories against fundamentalist textbook critics in Tennessee and Alabama, it is still losing the censorship war as conservatives intensify attacks on public school libraries and curricula. The liberal anti-censorship lobbying group said it counted 153 censorship incidents in the 1986-87 school year, 18% more than the 130 it counted a year ago.
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