From the beginning of its foundation, the Scouting movement in the United States was closely linked to religion, because it was precisely created by a Church around 1910. Throughout the 20th century it was moving away from religious institutions, although not completely. This explains why in 1954, the ‘scoutmaster’ Richard McKallip organized a house-to-house collection of publications that he considered outside of morality or ethics for dealing with topics related to fear, crime or sex. In an attempt to make them all disappear, he asked the adults in the community to give his Scout children comics or forbidden books, lit a bonfire and they were thrown one by one. This was the haunting scene immortalized by the image taken in the town of Winslow, in the state of Maine, in the northeast of the country in the middle of the 20th century: a book burning.
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