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American Library Association Intellectual Freedom, Vol. 10, No. 1

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09641.03 Author/Creator: American Library Association Place Written: s.l. Type: Newsletter Date: March 1961 Pagination: 8 p. : Height: 28.5 cm, Width: 21.7 cm Order a Copy

One newsletter dated March 1961. Edited by Everett T. Moore from the Intellectual Freedom Committee of the American Library Association. Mentions censorship and other racial insensitivities. Issues in this volume of the newsletter includes ALA's position regarding civil rights, a Supreme Court decision to ban the film "Don Juan," integration at the William R. McKenney Free Library in Petersburg, Virginia, an order by President John F. Kennedy to end mail confiscation among other topics.

Lawrence, D. H., 1885-1930
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963
Moore, Everett T., 1909-1988

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