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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 Censorship Pages
This site covers banned books and censorship. Special interest: Articles on Censorship and Quotations on Censorship.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceThe 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.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceHumanities 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.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceIndex 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.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceOn-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.

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