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Judith Krug, Founder of Banned Books Week Passes

By firstamendmentblogger

The Chicago Tribune reports the passing of Judith Krug this past weekend in Evaston, Illinois.  Krug is probably best remembered as the founder of Banned Books Week, the American Library Association's annual event that began in 1982 as a call to end censorship in libraries and public schools.  She directed the Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom since its founding in 1967, and had also establish a foundation to help litigants pay the cost of bringing free speech cases.

A sad and notable passing.

-Kathleen A. Bergin 

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on April 17, 2009 (boomark / email).