Former Pickens County Library Director Files Wrongful Termination Lawsuit; Unearths Depths of Censorship, Library Attacks
Book Riot | 11.11.2026 16:45
South Carolina libraries, both school and public, have been under attack as long and as severely as in other states. The state is one of three with mechanisms to ban books statewide in schools, and it’s demanded the removal of 21 books from all public school libraries. Once the largest list of state-sanctioned book bans, they’ve been surpassed by Utah this year, and it’s quite likely that part of South Carolina’s quieting of such bans is directly related to a lawsuit brought forth by students and librarians last fall.
