The legal aspects of censorship of public school library and instructional materials
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Elizabeth W. Detty (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Joseph E. Bryson
Abstract: Historical research determines that censorship based on politics, religion, or morality has been a continual issue from early recorded history of man to the present. American settlers brought with them to the new world a heritage of suppression of reading matter by church and state. Censorship of obscenity in reading matter began in the early eighteenth century in the New England colonies; however, it did not become a legal issue in the United States until the early 1800s. From that time until the present, obscenity has been a matter of concern for the judiciary. This study presents an historical perspective of censorship in order to develop the history of censorship in the United States. A definition of obscenity is given as it has evolved through the judiciary from the nineteenth century until the present.
The legal aspects of censorship of public school library and instructional materials
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 1981
- Subjects
- School libraries $x Censorship
- Instructional materials centers $x Censorship
- Censorship $x Legal status, laws, etc.