Board Overturns ‘Invisible Man’ Ban

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Updated Apr. 20, 2017 4:55PM ET / Published Sep. 26, 2013 12:42PM ET

Good decision, it being Banned Books Week and all. The Randolph County school board in North Carolina, which represents some 16,000 students, overturned on Wednesday their controversial Sept. 16 decision to ban Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. The board members had to convene an emergency meeting after they were reportedly inundated with outraged emails.

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