Censorship & The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of
tle in a shed" and portrayed life "in such a bestial way" (Sillen 23). Sillen stated that this was a minor issue:
The campaign against The Grapes of Wrath is motivated by fear--justified, of course--that the conditions which it exposes will arouse the resentment of the American people (Sillen 23).
In California, the board of supervisors of Kern County banned the book, and the Associated Farmers of Kern County started a campaign to extend this censorship to the state as a whole. A meeting was held in San Francis
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