Book About Holocaust Banned in Tennessee School District
The McMinn County School Board decided Jan. 10 to remove “Maus” from its curriculum.
- Published
This article was republished here with permission from The Associated Press, however it is no longer available to read on Snopes.com.
ATHENS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee school district has voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel about the Holocaust due to “inappropriate language” and an illustration of a nude woman, according to minutes from a board meeting. The McMinn County School Board decided Jan. 10 to remove “Maus” from its curriculum, news outlets reported. Art Spiegelman won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for the work that tells the story of his Jewish parents…
