After a Tennessee school board banned a graphic novel about the Holocaust from local middle schools, comic book store owners from near and far pledged to send students the book for free.
Highlights
- A Tennessee school board banned a graphic novel about the Holocaust from local middle schools.
- Comic book store owners from near and far pledged to send students the book for free.
- “Maus” tells the story of his parents in the 1940’s, following the Jewish family’s experience with rising anti-Semitism to their internment at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- The novel was removed for “unnecessary use of profanity and nudity and its depiction of violence and suicide,” the education board said in a statement.
- Go Fund Me has raised over $95,000 as of Tuesday, exceeding their original goal of $20,000.
- The graphic novel’s distributor, Penguin Random House, has been overwhelmed with demand for copies.