Montgomery County Reclassifies Book

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Opinion | We fight book bans in Texas. This county’s latest move stunned us.

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The Texas Freedom to Read Project is a parent-led organization dedicated to safeguarding the rights of Texans — especially young people — to freely access information.

The Montgomery County Commissioners Court ordered librarians there to reclassify the nonfiction children’s book “ Colonization and the Wampanoag Story ’ as fiction.

A healthy democracy relies on a well-informed citizenry. We are currently facing a dangerous disinformation epidemic, and public libraries serve as sacred institutional havens where citizens can access resources and information based on centuries of curated collection practices guided by library science — not by the latest viral conspiracy theories rooted in disinformation. The government should not be declaring what is fiction or nonfiction..

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