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Books That Have Been Banned in the United States (09/21/2004)

(09/21/2004)

ACLU Freedom Concert Celebrates Banned Books Week (09/21/2004)

Take the Banned Book Quiz! (09/25/2003)

Banned Books Week 2003 (09/20/2003)

Banned Books Week 2003 - Defending First Amendment Rights (09/19/2003)

Banned Books Week 2003 - The Ten Most Challenged Books of 2002 (09/19/2003)

Banned Books Week 2003 - A History of Fighting Censorship (09/19/2003)

Banned Books Week 2003 - Brief Timeline on Censored Music (09/19/2003)

Banned Books Week 2003 - The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000 (09/19/2003)

Tom Robbins Reads Tropic of Cancer: Banned Books Week 2001 (02/27/2002)
Hear author Tom Robbins read an excerpt of Henry Miller's novel Tropic of Cancer as part of our Banned Books Week audio special.

Michael Chabon (02/27/2002)
Hear author Michael Chabon read an excerpt from Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez as part of the ACLU's Banned Books Week audio special.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Discusses the Publication of "Howl:" ACLU Banned Books Week 2001 (02/27/2002)
Hear poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti discuss the publication and ensuing obscenity trial of Allen Ginsberg's ""Howl and Other Poems,"" as part of the ACLU Banned Books Week audio special.

Authors Speak in Celebration of Banned Books Week 2001 (02/15/2002)
Allen Ginsberg's revolutionary poem Howl and Henry Miller's erotic masterpiece Tropic of Cancer are landmark works that reflect the power, pleasure, creativity, and challenge of great American literature. Yet both have been pulled from library and bookstore shelves, condemned as obscene, and otherwise suppressed and censored. In 1950 the United States government sought to bar the entry of Tropic of Cancer through customs.

Defending Reproductive Rights in Cyberspace (10/31/1996)