Friday, September 27, 2013

Banned Book Week: Timeline from Pen America

Manuscripts Don't Burn: a Timeline of Literary Censorship, Destruction, and Liberation
Pen America: 9.20.2013 by Dan Sheehan

To celebrate Banned Books week, PEN has compiled a timeline of the most notorious acts of censorship and how we've fought to keep books available for readers. Mouse over the timeline to move backwards and forwards and drag the slider tool below the timeline to advance more quickly.
 
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

“Mapping Censorship”
was created by Chris Peterson of the National Coalition Against Censorship and Alita Edelman of the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression. The map is now updated by the American Library Association.
Book Bans and Challenges, 2007-2011
http://www.bannedbooksweek.org/mappingcensorship