Censorship in America

By fiamliskin

  • Sam Adams Censors His Critics

    Sam Adams Censors His Critics
    President Adams signs a bill that makes it illegal to criticize a government official without backing it up in court, censoring all his critics.

  • Fanny Hill banned

    Fanny Hill banned
    Fanny Hill, a novel by John Cleveland (1748), is outlawed in a Massachusetts court for it's sexual material. The book remains banned until 1966 when the Supreme Court overturns the ban.

  • Comstock Act

    Anthony Comstock, head of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, successfully campaigns for a federal law that allowed police to search mail without a warrant for obscene material.

  • James Joyce's Ulysses

  • American Gangsters and the Hays Code

  • Comics Code Authority vs. Comic Books

  • Lady Chatterly's Lover