<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px">The Secret History of Comics<br style="" class="">Urbana Free Library Celebrates Banned Books Week <br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">Saturday, September 27 from 2 - 3pm at the Urbana Free Library<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">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. <br style="" class=""><br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">This program is being presented during Banned Books Week - The American <br style="" class="">Library Association's annual celebration of the Freedom to Read.<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">For more information, contact Carol Inskeep at 367-4405.<div></div></div></body></html>