Following national backlash and a class action lawsuit, a school board in Missouri has reversed its decision to ban Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye from its high school libraries.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the Wentzville School Board voted 5-2 to rescind its earlier decision to ban the work which had been challenged by a parent. The board then voted 5-1 to accept a review committee’s recommendation to retain the book. One member abstained.  Four of the board’s seven members originally voted for the ban.

The Post-Dispatch reported that board vice president, Daniel Brice, agreed the district should “tighten its policies” around some books, but noted that parents already have the right to request certain titles not be available to their children.

A trio of state lawmakers wrote that the decision to ban the book should be upheld no matter what. State legislators Sen. Bob Onder, Rep. Nick Schroer, and Rep. Richard West wrote in a letter, “We strongly urge you to stand strong in your advocacy and care for our children, and to defend your decision by any means necessary, including legal means.”

Two students, represented by American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri attorneys, filed a class-action lawsuit against the district. The lawsuit charges that removing books threatens the students’ abilities “to learn and engage with a diversity of ideas and information, including seeing their own experiences reflected in the books and developing greater understanding of the experiences of others.”

Despite the board’s reversal, the Post-Dispatch reports the ACLU as stating that the suit remains active, and explaining in a news release: “This is welcome news, but the fact remains that six books are still banned. And Wentzville’s policies still make it easy for any community member to force any book from the shelves even when they shamelessly target books by and about communities of color, LGBTQ people and other marginalized groups,” said Anthony Rothert, director of integrated advocacy of ACLU of Missouri. “Access to The Bluest Eye was taken from students for three months just because a community member did not think they should have access to Toni Morrison’s story.”

RELATED: Poll: Most Americans Do Not Support Banning Books

The same school district has also received challenges against at least four other titles: All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson; Fun Home by Alison Bechdel; Heavy by Kiese Laymon and Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison. The titles have been removed from school libraries.