
Students sued when a school district restricted several books. The school board reinstated one novel
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A Missouri school board reversed an earlier decision to remove a Toni Morrison book from school shelves just days after two students filed a lawsuit.
The Wentzville school board voted on Friday to reinstate "The Bluest Eye," with only one vote against the decision. The book tells the story of an impoverished and abused Black girl who is fixated on White standards of beauty and longs for blue eyes. Board members had voted 4-3 in January to remove it from school library shelves and restrict digital access.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri (ACLU), who filed the lawsuit on behalf of the students, argued the board has restricted several books that engage students with a "diversity of ideas and minority viewpoints, including with respect to race, gender, and sexual identity," adding board members ban books because of "ideological disagreement."