![]() ![]() ![]() The grant was part of LEH’s “Who Gets to Vote?” library reading and book discussion program “intended to engage members of the general public in conversations on the history of voting - and efforts to suppress the vote - in the United States.” The library board rejected the grant for not representing “both sides” of the issue of voter suppression. The Lafayette (LA) Public Library Board voted 5-2 to reject a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH) which would have provided funds for two facilitators and the purchase of copies of Bending Toward Justice by Gary May and Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Marshall University does not ban books! The information is provided to let people know what has been banned/challenged elsewhere. ![]()
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