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A list of cuts made to films by the Chicago Board of Censors. Published in the Exhibitors Herald in 1918. The Chicago Board of Censors was a film censorship committee based in Chicago that was founded in 1907 [1] [2] as the Police Censor Board, and operated until 1984. [3] [4] It was the first film censorship board in the United States.
Banned in Australia from 1927 to 1936 and from 1938 to 1973. [4] 1938 1973 The 120 Days of Sodom (1789) Marquis de Sade: 1789 1957 *Unknown* Novel Banned by the Australian Government in 1957 for obscenity. [5] Droll Stories: Honoré de Balzac: 1837 1901, 1928 1923, 1973 Short stories Banned for obscenity from 1901 to 1923 and 1928 to c.1973. [6 ...
The book “1984” was one of three classic works of literature the South Carolina Board of Education voted to keep in public schools on Tuesday.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Maya Angelou: Incest, Sexual Content 1969 88 6 3 I Saw Esau: Iona and Peter Opie: Obscene language 2000 — 98 — In Cold Blood: Truman Capote: Violence, sexual content, and obscene language 1966 — — — In Our Mother's House: Patricia Polacco: 2009 47 — — In the Night Kitchen: Maurice Sendak
A group of adults, whether it be parents or teachers, finds a book’s content to be so offensive that they call for it to be pulled from shelves, taken off syllabi or even banned entirely from ...
There may be no one who can say "I told you so" better than George Orwell, who was born today, June 25th in 1903. In Orwell's novel "1984" — which was published in 1949 — the English author ...
Banned Books Week is the product of a national alliance between organizations who strive to bring awareness to banned books. [118] 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".
“College football, I think, is in terrible trouble.” Andy Coats fought — and won — a 1984 Supreme Court case that gave college football television freedom. Now, it may lead to its demise.