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Strong-arming ideas in libraries prompts concern
After a Dayton talk to the Ohio Library association a trustee condemned The Naked and the Dead as immoral and vowed to bar it from his town. In Oak Park a poet’s daughter questioned whether the masses can be trusted with ideas. A southern librarian favored reading but would not stock certain titles. The piece notes a trend toward suppression, with limited protest from writers and readers aside from the American Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom committee.
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Ohio Library Association
Dayton
Oak Park
Mainstream
Masses
American Library Association
Committee On Intellectual Freedom
Los Angeles
Mr. Jessup
Henderson
New York City
Los Angeles County
Philadelphia
Sioux City
Rochester
James B. Conant
Harvard University
New York Herald Tribune
Communist Party