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American Library Association Banned Books Week September 24, 2011 through October 1, 2011. Nazi students seize books Berlin 1933. Boston police with a haul of 'subversive' literature, 1940s. 'Ban the Beatles' campaign, 1966. Knowledge Breaks the Chains of Slavery, Russia, 1920 .
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American Library Association Banned Books Week September 24, 2011 through October 1, 2011
The seal of the Society for the Suppression of Vice founded in 1873
American Library Association Banned Books Week September 24, 2011 through October 1, 2011
1st Amendment Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
14th Amendment, Section 1 All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
American Library Association Banned Books Week September 24, 2011 through October 1, 2011
First edition published in London in 1884 and New York in 1885
American Library Association Banned Books Week Poster, 2011