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Pinellas County Schools lifts ban on 'The Bluest Eye'
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Less than a month after a national controversy over removing a movie on civil rights icon Ruby Bridges from a St. Petersburg elementary school, the district on Tuesday lifted a ban on "The Bluest Eye" by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison.
In a move that drew national attention, district officials banned the book from school libraries earlier this year under State Board of Education Rule 6A-7.015.
But the district reversed course after a team of six library media specialists and a district coordinator for libraries media read the book and lifted the ban.
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