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Autor/in | Mediavilla, Cindy |
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Titel | The War on Books and Ideas: The California Library Association and Anti-Communist Censorship in the 1940s and 1950s. |
Quelle | In: Library Trends, 46 (1997) 2, S.331-47 |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0024-2594 |
Schlagwörter | Censorship; Communism; History; Intellectual Freedom; Legislation; Librarians; Library Role; Public Libraries; Reading Materials; School Libraries; California |
Abstract | Chronicles the California Library Association's battle against anti-Communist censorship attempts from 1946 to 1956 in schools and public libraries as well as on the legislative front. An overview of the "Fiske report" is offered as an explanation of how intellectual freedom challenges impacted California librarians of the period. (Author) |
Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |