Read and Then Say We Can't". In his essay, Hentoff talks about several different ways books were challenged in public schools. Hentoff believes that eliminating books from schools is a form of thought control. He states, "Attempts to control what children read, and thereby think, have been increasing across the country. It is evident, supported by his findings, that there is a major problem in this country when it comes to the censorship of books that children can read. Why do people see it as a solution to the problems of America's education system? Some school distrcts were trying to ban Mark Twain's calssic,"Huckleberry Finn" because of what it contained. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was pursuin

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Approximate Word count = 502
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)