Saw my local library's banned book display get taken down within 4 hours

I live in a small town in Kansas, and last month our library put up a display for Banned Books Week. They had classics like 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and '1984' with little notes about why they got challenged. By noon, a lady from the school board came in and made them take it down. She said it was 'promoting controversial materials' to children even though it was in the adult section. I asked a librarian about it the next day and she just shrugged and said 'you gotta pick your battles around here.' It made me think about how even well-intentioned displays get killed before anyone can actually see them. Has anyone else had a local library pull something like this recently?

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