Banned Books Week
The link above is for the ALA, American Library Association. I got the information below from them. By clicking the link above you can find out all kinds of information. The ALA has lists of the books that have been challenged and tons of other links about fighting censorhip!
Hard to think this is America, “Land of the Free” sometimes…
Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, this annual ALA event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted. This year, 2007, marks BBW’s 26th anniversary (September 29 through October 6).
Important to Remember:
“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.”—Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas,” The One Un-American Act.” Nieman Reports, vol. 7, no. 1 (Jan. 1953): p. 20.
Comments
Got something to say?
