100-year-old woman’s speech against book bans in Florida school district goes viral

Image caption: Grace Linn, 100, speaks at a Martin County School Board meeting on March 21, 2023. Jodi Picoult/TikTok. Article by Annie Reneau. Upworthy – March 24, 2023.

Grace Linn speaks for millions of Americans.

Four hundred years ago, copies of William Tyndale’s English translation of the Bible were publicly burned by the bishop of London, with church authorities insisting that the Bible should only be read in Latin (and only by the clergy). In the centuries since, many books we now consider classics such as Daniel Defoe’s “Robinson Crusoe,” Jack London’s “Call of the Wild,” Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass,” […]

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