Editing The Color Purple (section)

=== Censorship in the United States ===
Though the novel has garnered critical acclaim, it has also been the subject of controversy. The American Library Association placed it on the list of top hundred banned and challenged books in the United States from 1990 to 1999 (17),<ref>{{Cite web |last=Office of Intellectual Freedom |date=2013-03-26 |title=100 most frequently challenged books: 1990-1999 |url=https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/decade1999 |access-date=2021-06-18 |website=American Library Association |language=en}}</ref> 2000 to 2009 (17),<ref>{{Cite web |last=Office of Intellectual Freedom |date=2013-03-26 |title=Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009 |url=https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/decade2009 |access-date=2021-06-18 |website=American Library Association |language=en}}</ref> and 2010 to 2019 (50),<ref>{{Cite web |last=Office of Intellectual Freedom |date=2020-09-09 |title=Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books: 2010-2019 |url=https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/decade2019 |access-date=2021-06-18 |website=American Library Association |language=en}}</ref> as well as the top ten list for 2007 (6) and 2009 (9).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Office of Intellectual Freedom |date=2013-03-26 |title=Top 10 Most Challenged Books Lists |url=https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10 |access-date=2021-06-18 |website=American Library Association |language=en}}</ref> Commonly cited justifications for banning the book include sexual explicitness, explicit language, violence, and homosexuality.<ref>{{Cite web |last=admin |date=2013-03-27 |title=Banned and/or Challenged Books from the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century |url=http://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/classics/reasons |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191204011327/http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/classics |archive-date=2019-12-04 |access-date=2016-09-25}}</ref>