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November 8th, 2011 | Author: dcohen
Mrs. Vandigriff’s Assignment
Fahrenheit-451-webQuest-2011
The First Amendment in the Bill of Rights:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
“Local school boards may not remove books from school library shelves simply because they dislike the ideas contained in those books …”
— U.S. Supreme Court in Board of Education, Island Trees School District v. Pico (1982)
Freedom to Read Statement from the American Library Association
http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/statementspols/ftrstatement/freedomreadstatement.cfm
Article from the Long Island Coalition Against Censorship,” Censorship in Schools and Libraries.”
http://www.the-licac.org/sc-happyland-webifier-freedom3/
Author Lois Lowry’s statement on censorship
http://www.randomhouse.com/highschool/RHI_magazine/pdf3/Lowry.pdf
Frequently challenged books of the 21st century
http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/21stcenturychallenged/index.cfm#2010
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