Censorship in
Schools and Libraries is an illustrated journal display that documents the
challenges to freedom of expression in the United States during the past 100
years. The new edition presents 32 cases of censorship each accompanied with an
illustration. Included are descriptions of the censorship of Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn, In the Night Kitchen, The Catcher in the Rye,
the novels of Judy Blume, and the popular Harry Potter series. U.S.
Supreme Court and lower court decisions regarding censorship are an integral
part of the exhibit.
The exhibit
is an educational project of the Nassau Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties
Union in cooperation with the Long Island Coalition Against Censorship.
Censorship
in Schools and Libraries exhibit highlights significant censorship cases
during the past 100 years.
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A board of education removes
selected books from a high school library. |
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More than 100 years after its
publication, "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" continues to be the
object of censors. |
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The popular Harry Potter
books are burned because they ‘promote
“wizardry.’ |
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The evolution, creationism,
intelligent design controversy continues
in a number of states. |
These are some of the challenges
to First Amendment rights that have occurred in public and school libraries
throughout the country.
The
exhibit will be in the following Nassau County libraries in 2008:
April –
Locust Valley
Public Library
170
Buckram Road 11560
(516) 671-1837
May –
Wantagh
Public Library
3285
Park Avenue 11793
(516) 221-1200
June/July
– Rockville Centre
Public Library
221 N.
Village Avenue 11570
(516) 766-6257
August
– Freeport
Public Library
144
W. Merrick Road 11520
(516) 379-3274
September
– Port Washington
Public Library
One Library
Drive 11050
(516) 883-4400
October
– Plainview-Old Bethpage
Public Library
999
Old Country Road, Plainview 11803
(516) 938-0077
November-
Massapequa
Public Library
40
Habour Lane 11762
(516) 799-0770
