A Selective Timeline of Art Censorship in the U.S.A.: 2000

School libraries in Michigan, Kansas, Colorado, California and many other states face challenges to Harry Potter books. Protests against the series in Florida result in at least one reading-incentive program being canceled.

An installation by photographer Bill Thomas is removed from the windows of Foley's Department Store in Houston. The controversial photograph, Racial Tensions, features black and white figures balanced on opposite ends of a see-saw, with nooses around their necks and hands tied behind their backs. It commemorates the 1960 sit-in protests that resulted in the integration of Houston?'downtown lunch-counters, including Foley's.