Censorship: 1950
ACLU of Northern California executive director Ernest Besig sues the U.S. customs service over censorship of Henry Miller’s erotic novels Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn; the courts rule against him in 1951 and 1953.
ACLU of Northern California executive director Ernest Besig sues the U.S. customs service over censorship of Henry Miller’s erotic novels Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn; the courts rule against him in 1951 and 1953.
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