Banned Books Week
Free People Read Freely ®
September 23-30, 2006
ACLU of TX Banned Books Week Project (PDF)
Display of Banned Books Removed at Harrisonburg High School
 Where to Begin New for 2006 Books and Authors
Librarians, Students, etc. BBW Kit Challenge Support
Reporters 2006 BBW Press Kit Explore BBW
"Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us."—Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas," The One Un-American Act." Nieman Reports, vol. 7, no. 1 (Jan. 1953): p. 20.
Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, this annual ALA event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted. This year, 2006, marks BBW's 25th anniversary (September 23-30).
BBW celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them. After all, intellectual freedom can exist only where these two essential conditions are met.
Where to Begin
New for 2006, the 25th Anniversary of Banned Books Week
Books and Authors
Next Banned Books Week
The dates for Banned Books Week 2007 will be September 29 through October 6.
Banned Books Week Sponsors
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