Censorship
Access sites on censorship, banned books, why books were banned and
the full text of many banned books.
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ALA:
The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000
From the American Library Association (ALA). A challenged book is a book
that someone has requested it be removed or banned from a library.
The list reflects challenges reported to or recorded by the Office
for Intellectual Freedom, as compiled by the Office for Intellectual
Freedom, American Library Association.
The File Room: Archive of Cases
Part of the File Room site. It is the aim of The File Room to recognize
acts of censorship in relation to their social settings, political
movements, religious beliefs, economic conditions, cultural expressions
and/or personal identities from the obvious to the subtle. This portion
allows the user to access actual instances of censorship by Date, Location,
Grounds for Censorship or Medium.
Humanities
Interactive: Bonfire of Liberties
From Humanities Interactive, a project of the Texas Humanities Resource
Center, a division of the Texas Council for the Humanities. An excellent
resource on types of censorship of the humanities.
Index
for Free Expression
A country-by-country update of free speech abuses. Click on the letters
to see an alphabetical listing by country of recent incidents of censorship.
Sources used to compile this information include Amnesty International,
The UN's Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN), Human Rights
Watch (HRW), World Association of Newspapers and many others.
On-Line Books Page: Banned Books On-Line
From the On-Line Books Page. Find links to the full text of books which
have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts, from Voltaire's
Candide to Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
Yahoo! Censorship
Access information on all types of censorship, including Arts and Censorship,
Book Banning, Censorship and the Net, First Amendment, Music Censorship,
Organizations V-Chip, as well as general censorship sites.