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Banned in Australia from 1927 to 1936 and from 1938 to 1973. [5] 1938 1973 The 120 Days of Sodom (1789) Marquis de Sade: 1789 1957 *Unknown* Novel Banned by the Australian Government in 1957 for obscenity. [6] Droll Stories: Honoré de Balzac: 1837 1901, 1928 1923, 1973 Short stories Banned for obscenity from 1901 to 1923 and 1928 to c.1973. [7 ...
Reason(s) for ban Hamid Aboutalebi Iran: Diplomat and envoy to the United Nations: Played a role as a translator for the militants who stormed the American Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held 52 American citizens hostage for 444 days. [2] Tareck El Aissami Venezuela: Politician and former Vice President of Venezuela (2017-2018)
Since 2001, the American Library Association has posted the top ten most frequently challenged books per year on their website. [4] Using the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century, ALA has also noted banned and challenged classics. [5] The ALA does not claim comprehensiveness in recording challenges.
Banned in five states and five other cities due to "glorification of crime." [3] Ecstasy: 1933 1933–1937 Banned in the US from 1933 to 1937 due to its erotic content. [12] [13] 8 Popeye the Sailor short films 1933-1952 Since the 1990s Banned from television rotation as politically incorrect.
What is considered as the first book ban in what is now known as the United States was of Thomas Morton's New English Canaan or New Canaan, published in Amsterdam in 1637. That same year, the Puritan government in Quincy, Massachusetts, banned it because they considered it a heretical and harsh critique of Puritan customs and power structures.
It makes mandatory the Library Bill of Rights published by the American Library Association. Governor J. B. Pritzker signed the law on June 12, 2023, and it took effect at the start of the following year. [37] A number of authors whose works were banned spoke out. Some saw it as a badge of honor, while others found it distressing.
Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf has been banned by several European governments. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This is an index of lists of banned books , which contain books that have been banned or censored by religious authority or government .
The Prohibition era was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the United States prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages. [1] The alcohol industry was curtailed by a succession of state legislatures, and Prohibition was formally introduced nationwide under the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified on January 16, 1919.