First Amendment and Censorship
The essential message of Banned Books Week is the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them.� Search this site and investigate books that have been challenged or banned in the United States. Teachers and students who are examining the first amendment will find this site helpful.
A special exhibit of books that have been the object of censorship or censorship attempts. Although this exhibit only represents books that are available online, the page also links to other censorship news and organizations fighting it including current writings by people who have been censored by their government.
Based in San Francisco, EFF is a donor-supported membership organization working to protect our fundamental rights regardless of technology; to educate the press, policymakers and the general public about civil liberties issues related to technology; and to act as a defender of those liberties. Among its various activities, EFF opposes misguided legislation, initiates and defends court cases preserving individuals' rights, launches global public campaigns, introduces leading edge proposals and papers, hosts frequent educational events, engages the press regularly, and publishes a comprehensive archive of digital civil liberties information at one of the most linked-to websites in the world: http://www.eff.org. A great resource for issues concerning the freedom of Internet commerce and speech.
The ACLU web site offers its positions on Internet privacy. Technology has opened up a whole new world of free speech and its attacks upon it.
Explores and publiciizes censorship in our society by locating important stories which have not been reported in mainstream news.
Free Expression Clearinghouse
This site is dedicated to American history around the turn of the century that is often forgotten and generally contested. One of its topics is Mark Twain. There is an archive of uncensored Twain essays and a Banned Books link that gives you reviews and news stories of Huckleberry Finn from 1884-2001. This site is an excellent source for students and teachers studying censorship, challenged books and ideas, and of course Huckleberry Finn.