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First Amendment in flux: When free speech protections came up against the Red Scare

  • Written by Jodie Childers, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia
First Amendment in flux: When free speech protections came up against the Red ScareHollywood screenwriter Samuel Ornitz speaks before the House Un-American Activities Committee in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 29, 1947. UPI/Bettmann Archive via Getty Images

As the United States faces increasing incidents of book banning and threats of governmental intervention – as seen in the temporary suspension of TV host Jimmy Kimmel –...

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