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An American school district actually burned this famous book in a furnace
What happened
In November 1976, the school board in Drake, North Dakota, unanimously ordered Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five removed from school premises after a parent objected to its profanity. AlterNet reports that officials demanded students surrender their copies, searched the lockers of those who refused, and burned 32 copies in the school furnace.
English teacher Bruce Severy had assigned the anti-war novel to his sophomore literature class. Vonnegut later wrote to the board, defending the book as an appeal for kindness and responsibility and noting that he had fought in World War…
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