Library war in Fairhope: Group calls for board chair’s resignation
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Anne Johnson, a member of the Fairhope Library Board, speaks during a town hall meeting about censorship and how it's affecting Alabama's libraries on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024, at the Fairhope Unitarian Fellowship in Fairhope, Ala. Pictured to the left is Angie Hayden, a founder of Read Freely Alabama; and Elizabeth Willliams, who is the organizer of the Baldwin County chapter of Read Freely Alabama.John Sharp
The group Clean Up Alabama is calling on Fairhope city officials to withhold $250,000 of capital money from the Fairhope Public Library and are urging for the immediate resignation of the library board’s chair.
The concerns from the nonprofit group stem from what they say is an inappropriate position taken by Anne Johnson, the library chair, in defense of books on display at the Fairhope Public Library.
