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Censored: Wielding the Red Pen

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Censored: Wielding the Red Pen

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Migrated April 2011

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Margaret Sanger, October 1917.
Margaret Sanger Outside the Brooklyn Court of Special Sessions Following Her Arraignment. October 1917.
Courtesy of the Margaret Sanger Center, Planned Parenthood of New York.

69 titles
Bookcase with 69 censored titles from "785 Dirty Words"

To Kill A Mockingbird - Advance copy, 1960.
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1960.

Publisher's advance copy in wrappers

Lee Letter to the Editor
Lee, Harper. Letter. The Richmond News Leader. 14 January 1966: p. 14.

From the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature.

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. 1959.
Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun. New York: Random House, 1959.

Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin. 1963, c1961.
Griffin, John Howard. Black Like Me. [New York]: New American Library, [1963, c1961].

Purchased with the Robert and Virginia Tunstall Trust Fund.

Margaret Sanger, October 1917.
Margaret Sanger Outside the Brooklyn Court of Special Sessions Following Her Arraignment. October 1917.

Courtesy of the Margaret Sanger Center, Planned Parenthood of New York.

House Bill no. 25 [1924]
House Bill, No. 25. A Bill to Amend and Re-Enact Section 5074 of the Code of Virginia, in Relation to Marriage Licenses. [1924].

Cheatham Letter
Typed letter, signed, with envelope from W.A. Plecker to John Powell. 7 June 1933. 2pp. From the John Powell Collection.

Salinger
Salinger, J.D. Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown, 1951.

From the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature.

"What Every Girl Should Know." Sanger, Margaret.
Sanger, Margaret. "What Every Girl Should Know." Little Blue Books. New York: Arno, 1974. Rpt. of Little Blue Book No. 14. Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, ca. 1920. 1-64

Comstock Laws
The Comstock Laws Considered as to Their Constitutionality: Being T.B. Wakeman's Faneuil Hall Speech, Letter from James Parton, Replies to the Index, etc. New York: D.M. Bennett, Liberal Publisher, 1878.
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