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Censorship of the Bible includes restrictions and prohibition of possessing, reading, or using the Bible in general or any particular editions or translations of it. Violators of Bible prohibitions have at times been punished by imprisonment, forced labor, banishment and execution, as well as by the burning or confiscating the Bible or Bibles ...
Banned in the US in 1821 for obscenity, then again in 1963. This was the last book ever banned by the US government. U.S. obscenity laws were overturned in 1959 by the Supreme Court in Kingsley Pictures Corp. v. Regents. [280] [281] [128] See also Memoirs v. Massachusetts. Candide: Voltaire: 1759 1959 Novel Seized by US Customs in 1930 for ...
The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. London: George Allen & Unwin. Davis, KC. “The Lady Goes to Court: Paperbacks and Censorship (Reprinted from Two-Bit Culture: The Paperbacking of America, 1984).” Publishing Research Quarterly 11, no. 4 (1996): 9–32. Edwards, M. J. (2017). Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late ...
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Smith, who would be named president of the board, and the other Democrats on the board have long cried foul as the former GOP-majority forged ahead with controversial library policy that critics ...
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Banned Books Week is the product of a national alliance between organizations who strive to bring awareness to banned books. [123] Founded by first amendment and library activist Judy Krug and the Association of American Publishers in 1982, the event aims to bring banned books "to the attention of the American public".
Supernatural themes, references to the Bible 1974 — — 71 Cut: Patricia McCormick: References to cutting and self-harm 2000 — 86 — Daddy's Roommate: Michael Willhoite: LGBT themes 1991 — — 2 Daughters of Eve: Lois Duncan: Obscene language, sexual content, and violence 1979 — 51 — A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo: Jill Twiss