1791: First Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified.
1798: Alien and Sedition Acts
1850s: Public Libraries begin to take root in the US.
1883–1929: Andrew Carnegie built over 2500 libraries, most of them in the United States
1873: Comstock Act
1896: Rosen v. United States
1930s: The Motion Picture Production Code is established
1933: United States v. One Book Called Ulysses
1938: National Organization for Decent Literature is established
1943: West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette
1947-1954: McCarthyism
1954: Brown v. Board of Education
1954: The Comics Magazine Association of America was formed.
1957: Roth v. United States
1960: The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis published in 1960
1964: Jacobellis v. Ohio
1968: the Motion Picture Production Code was replaced with the MPAA film rating system
1969: Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
1973: Miller v. California
1982: New York v. Ferber
1982: Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School Dsitrict No. 26 v. Pico
1990: Osborne v. Ohio
1996: The Communications Decency Act (CDA) became law.
1997: Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union
1998: the Child Online Protection Act (COPA)
2000: Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA)
2004: Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Union
2011: last publisher (Archie Comics) participating in the Comics Code Authority leaves, causing the Comics Code Authority and the Comics Magazine Association of America to become defunct.
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