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born 1946 United States

Joan DelFattore (born 1946 in Newark, New Jersey) is a professor emerita of English and legal studies at the University of Delaware and well-known advocate for academic freedom. Her book What Johnny Shouldn't Read: Textbook Censorship in America (Yale University Press, 1992) won the American Library Association's Eli M.

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I have found that this speech is routinely removed from high school anthologies because it associates religion with falsehood and violence, thus offending people who demand that religion must always be presented favorably.

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