"Celebrate the Freedom to Read" Events in Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga

The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee (ACLU-TN), in cooperation with local bookstores and in observation of Banned Books Week, will hold its annual "Celebrate the Freedom to Read" events on Tuesday, September 27, from 7 pm - 8 pm at Borders in Nashville (2525 West End Avenue), Borders in Knoxville (202 Morrell Road), and A Novel Idea in Chattanooga (38 Frazier Avenue).

This year’s events will highlight "the best of the best" - award-winning books that also have been banned and challenged. Many recipients of the Pulitzer Prize or the Nobel Prize - including Pearl Buck, Margaret Mitchell, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Penn Warren, James Agee, Harper Lee, Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker - have seen their books banned or challenged in public schools and public libraries across the country. Our events will feature readings from these banned and challenged books, and will celebrate the First Amendment and its protection of the freedom to read for all readers.

ACLU-TN is a non-profit, non-partisan membership organization dedicated to translating the guarantees of the Bill of Rights into realities for all Tennesseans. ACLU-TN focuses on a range of constitutional issues, including free expression, privacy, racial justice, reproductive freedom, and religious freedom. ACLU-TN pursues its mission through our legislative, advocacy, litigation, and public education activities.

For more information, please call (615) 320-7142.

"Celebrate the Freedom to Read" Event Flyer - Nashville (45 KB)

"Celebrate the Freedom to Read" Event Flyer - Knoxville (45 KB)

"Celebrate the Freedom to Read" Event Flyer - Chattanooga (45 KB)