Posts Tagged ‘Censorship’

The Board of Education has just had their attention directed to a most deplorable state of morals existing in our schools, and the evil has been traced to some degraded persons . . . poisoning the minds of boys and girls.  —Reverend Samuel J. Shaw, United Presbyterian Church, San Diego.

In 1903 San Diego, the 14th-century novel The Decameron, was the target of the book censors.  Read about the Deplorable State of Morals.

Reverend Samuel Shaw. From Smythe, History of San Diego.

This is a book of defamation, of depravity, written by an atheistic, degenerate mind and yet it is honored with a place in Public Libraries.  —San Diego Patriotic Society, January 1963.

The issue of “banned books” has been with society for centuries. Here’s a story of how the San Diego Public Library coped with censorship in 1963. Read: The Last Temptation.