Texas: “Montgomery County Library Will Reclassify Book About Native Americans Amid Pressure”

Anti-censorship and pro-book advocates prevailed in Montgomery County on Tuesday as a children’s book about indigenous history was returned to its nonfiction categorization.

Colonization and the Wampanoag Story by Linda Coombs was moved to the fiction shelves of Montgomery County public libraries earlier this month. The move followed a decision made by the Montgomery County Citizens Reconsideration Committee, a group of community members that reviews children’s, young adult and parenting books.

Librarians were stripped of their roles to review such books after pressure from conservative activists gave citizens more of a say in regulating what is and is not on the shelves.