American Library Association Intellectual Freedom, Vol. 8, No. 3

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GLC#
GLC09641.02-View header record
Type
Newspapers
Date
September 1959
Author/Creator
American Library Association
Title
Intellectual Freedom, Vol. 8, No. 3
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
9 p. : Height: 27.8 cm, Width: 21.6 cm
Primary time period
1945 to the Present
Sub-Era
The Civil Rights Movement

One newsletter dated September 1959. Edited by Donald E. Strout from the Intellectual Freedom Committee of the American Library Association. Mentions censorship and other racial insensitivities. Topics printed include an article regarding a librarian from Alabama, Emily Reed receiving criticism from Senator Eddins of the Segregationist Screening Committee for including Martin Luther King Jr.'s account "Stride Towards Freedom" in the library's collection; the various reasons behind the banning of "Lady Chatterly's Lover" due to ideas of self expression, obsenity, pornography and limiting it's publication.

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