Hazelwood: History of Censorship in Education Imagine for a moment that everyone in America who favors censorship of one kind or another suddenly got their wish. Imagine they could clap their hands and cause any material that they objected to, for whatever reasons, to disappear . . . Virtually every film and television show would vanish . . . School textbooks would be so watered-down as to be meaningless. Newspapers would be forbidden to run controversial stories . . . . (American Voices 117) The basis of American freedom is guaranteed in the Constitution’s Bill of Rights by the First Amendment which states that “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press . . .” (as quoted in Student 9). The right of freedom of the press is clearly outlined and newspapers nation-wide covet their ....

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