'I think the freedom to read a book is the foundation of our democracy. It's under attack today.' Steven Pico took his school to the Supreme Court in the 1980s for pulling 'objectionable' books. This is his message to young people:
In 1976, Pico was a high school student at the Island Trees Union Free School District in Levittown, New York when the school board ordered the removal of several books from the junior high and high school libraries, including "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut and"Best Short Stories of Negro Writers" edited by Langston Hughes.
I actually have much more hope today that these battles are going to be fought and won. I know there are young people out there right now who are forming book clubs, groups where they're going to actually read banned books and decide for themselves. I know there's young people standing up, fighting these attempts at book censorship and that's really encouraging because that did not happen when I was in school.
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