[ACLU-CU ALERT] The Secret History of Comics at the Urbana Free Library this Saturday

[Champaign County ACLU Announcements]

The Secret History of Comics
Urbana Free Library Celebrates Banned Books Week 

Saturday, September 27 from 2 - 3pm at the Urbana Free Library

In 1954, comic books were put on trial by the United States government.  A Senate investigation prompted the birth of the Comics Code, a censorship body that shackled the medium for decades. New research by scholar Carol Tilley reveals a secret history behind the trials, including insights into the methods of Dr. Fredric Wertham, whose findings weren't merely faulty, but also fabricated. Go behind the scenes of this fateful moment in comics history with Wertham researcher Carol Tilley (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and learn the untold stories of Fredric Wertham, Estes Kefauver, and the kids who tried to fight the tide of the anti-comics momentum. 


This program is being presented during Banned Books Week - The American 
Library Association's annual celebration of the Freedom to Read.

For more information, contact Carol Inskeep at 367-4405.
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