One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of America's most challenged and banned novels.
- 1974: Five residents of Strongsville, Ohio, sued the local Board of Education to remove the novel from classrooms. They deemed the book "pornographic" and said it "glorifies criminal activity, has a tendency to corrupt juveniles, and contains descriptions of bestiality, bizarre violence, and torture, dismemberment, death, and human elimination".
- 1975: Randolph, New York, and Alton, Oklahoma, removed the book from all of their public schools.
- 1977: Schools in Westport, Maine, removed it from required reading lists.
- 1978: Freemont High School in St. Anthony, Idaho, banned it and fired the teacher who assigned it.
- 1982: Merrimack, New Hampshire High School challenged it.
- 1986: Aberdeen Washington High school challenged it in Honors English classes.
- 2000: Placentia Unified School District (Yorba Linda, California) challenged it. Parents said the teachers could "choose the best books, but they keep choosing this garbage over and over again".[13]
