http://www.salon.com/2013/09/20/north_carolina_county_reconsidering_ban_on_invisible_man/

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Following a national outcry over its decision to ban Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man," one of the most important books on African American identity in contemporary American literature, North Carolina's Randolph County Board of Education is reconsidering.

On Monday, the board members voted 5-2 to remove the book from all schools in the county after one Randleman High School parent wrote a 12-page letter claiming it was "too much for teenagers." One board member, Gary Mason, said, "I didn't find any literary value" in the book.

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