His Book Was Repeatedly Banned. Fighting For It Shaped His Life.
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In the mid-1980s, an attempt to ban 'The Chocolate War' in Panama City escalated into arson and death threats against teachers, revealing extreme responses to book censorship.
English teachers at Mowat Middle School faced harassment, including middle-of-the-night calls and threats, for protesting a schoolwide ban on novels like 'The Chocolate War'.
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