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Speech, Power, and Censorship – Reading Resources

Civil Rights Movement Is a Reminder That Free Speech Is There to Protect the Weak

Curtis Curious History of Attempts to Suppress Antislavery Speech, Press, and Petition in 1835-37

Early Efforts to Suppress Protest

Frederick Douglas: A Plea for Free Speech in Boston 1860

Silencing the Fanatics

The Forgotten Origins of the Constitution on Campus

The Struggle for Civil Rights and the First Amendment