Banned books. – Pacifica Radio Archives

Ban the Barb in the Richmond Public Library: what shall they read / produced by Steve Clark

Documentary on the City Council hearings about censoring literature in the Richmond Public Library. The recording was made on August 26, 1968 at the Richmond, California City Council Meeting. The last issue on the agenda that night was the issue as to whether or not the Berkeley Barb, the Los Angeles Free Press, and the…

August 24, 2025

Public libraries and the First Amendment (Episode 6 of 15)

The sixth in the 15-part series Bill of Rights Radio Education Project, co-sponsored by the Pacifica Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union, with major funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. On censorship and book banning in libraries; includes the case against Kathy Russell, director of the Washington County Public Library in Abingdon,…

August 24, 2025

The Three Marias : New Portuguese letters / Maria Isabel Barreno ; interviewed by Aurelia Morris.

On her book about the repression of Portuguese women and the troubles she and the two other authors faced after publication in 1973.

August 24, 2025