A Statement in Support of the Freedom to Read
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The Evergreen Review July-August 1962 cover and first three pages featured A Statement in Support of the Freedom to Read[1].
The cover read "We the undersigned, strongly endorse Judge Samuel B. Epstein's defense of the freedom to read in his historic decision in the Tropic of Cancer case in Chicago. Judge Epstein, by stating that "the right to free utterance becomes a useless privilege when the freedom to read is restricted or denied," has put the issue of police censorship..."
It was followed by a list of approximately 100 editors and publishers with their affiliations.
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