Alex Haley lived in Tennessee and spent time in this area, wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning novel about slavery, has a statue in our city, and we are banning his book in our schools.
What are we even doing here?
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Knox County Schools adds Pulitzer Prize-winning 'Roots' to list of banned books
Knox County Schools recently took Alex Haley's influential novel, "Roots," off library shelves under the Age-Appropriate Materials Act.