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Essay by Suzanne Fisher Staples on censorship in American school libraries.
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Jersey City State College, Jersey City, New Jersey
Censorship in American Libraries
Among my happiest memories are of rainy summer days tuck-ed up
under the eaves of our family's rustic lake cottage, a gentle
patter overhead, reading a book. The Hardy Boys. Black Beauty.
Treasure Island. The
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Special exhibit of books that have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts.
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Welcome to this special exhibit of books that have been
the objects of censorship or censorship attempts. The books
featured here, ranging from Ulysses to Little
Red Riding Hood , have been selected from the indexes of
for over 35,000 more online books!)
This page is a work in progress, and
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Archive of case files pertaining to the censorship and suppression of works and ideas from Socrates to Judy Blume.
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Initiated as an artist's project by Muntadas, The File
Room was originally produced by Randolph Street Gallery (a
non-profit artist run center in Chicago,IL, 1979-1998) with the support
of the School of Art and Design and the Electronic Visualization
Laboratory at
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Directory of Web and print censorship resources with detailed descriptions of each link.
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As long as humans have sought to communicate, others have sought to prevent them. Every day someone tries to restrict or control what can be said, written, sung, or broadcast. Almost every idea ever thought has proved objectionable to one person or another, and almost everyone has sometimes felt the
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News and updates on matters of free speech, book banning and related issues for booksellers.
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BOOKSELLERS FOUNDATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION
ABFFE Protests Dismissal of Board Members and Book Censorship at West
controversy over the dismissal of four library board members in West
Bend, Wisconsin, continues to grow. The West Bend Common Council may
soon be forced to reconsider its April 21
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This informative article from education World is mainly aimed at teachers, but it is useful for anyone concerned with book banning and censorship in schools. Challenges to school materials are a common occurrence. How should such challenges be handled? How can they be avoided?
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Banning Books from the Classroom: How to Handle Cries for Censorship
Banning Books from the Classroom:
How to Handle Cries for Censorship Challenges to school materials
are a common occurrence. How should such challenges be handled? How can
What books should be taught in schools? It sounds like a simple question
but the answer can be complex.
Challenges to
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Articles and links on baned books and censorship. Many links are dead
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Welcome to The Censorship Pages. Here you will find information about the freedom
of speech and of the press in reference to the written word. These pages provide
the resources needed to explore how, and why censorship happens not only in
the United States, but all around the world. I hope these
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Current news, features and trend analysis in free expression issues in U.S.
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Submitted by admin, on May 22nd, 2009.
By OpenTheGovernment.org 05/22/2009
As promised on President Obama’s first full day in office, the White House has launched a process for soliciting public input and participation in the development of Open Government Directive. The public may participate
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Modest collection of sayings and viewpoints of book burning.
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This page is dedicated to author Salman Rushdie
"Where they have burned books,
they will end in burning human beings."
Nazis burn books in Berlin in 1933.
reply to Robespierre, January 7, 1794,
on burning his newspaper Vieux Cordelier
"Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no
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A librarians' finding guide for information on banned books and censorship.
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