Do book bans violate children’s First Amendment rights to receive information and ideas?
In New Jersey, recent efforts to ban books in Wayne, Ramsey, Westfield and the North Hunterdon-Voorhees School District focused on the removal of five LGBTQ+-themed books including George M. Johnson’s award-winning “All Boys Aren’t Blue” – a book written by a Black author about a Black boy coming to terms with his sexual orientation.









