South Carolina public school students and librarians on Oct. 7 filed a lawsuit asking a federal court to block enforcement of the state’s book banning regulation and a classroom censorship memo issued by state Superintendent of Education Ellen Weaver.

The move comes on day three of the nation’s Banned Books Week, held this year from Oct. 5 to Oct. 11. The annual recognition is shaped by its rally cry for free and open access to information. It galvanizes librarians, educators, authors, publishers, booksellers and readers.

“Many people don’t know anything about book bans or that it’s happening across America,” Charleston’s Academic Magnet High School senior Kate Selvitelli said in last week’s the lead story in the current issue of the City Paper . “As a country that was built on the f

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