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Freedom of speech is protected in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights and is guaranteed to all Americans. Since 1920, the ACLU has worked to preserve our freedom of speech. Learn more and take action to protect the right to free speech.


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Free Speech : Resources

Authors Speak in Celebration of Banned Books Week 2001 (02/15/2002)
Allen Ginsberg's revolutionary poem Howl and Henry Miller's erotic masterpiece Tropic of Cancer are landmark works that reflect the power, pleasure, creativity, and challenge of great American literature. Yet both have been pulled from library and bookstore shelves, condemned as obscene, and otherwise suppressed and censored. In 1950 the United States government sought to bar the entry of Tropic of Cancer through customs.

All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go: Students and Their Parents Fight School Uniform Policies (11/04/1999)

Letter from Colin Powell (05/18/1999)

Testimony of Roger Pilon of the CATO Institute Against the Flag Desecration Amendment (04/30/1997)

Defending Reproductive Rights in Cyberspace (10/31/1996)

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