Banned Books and Censorship

Your donation helps to fund strategic litigation, advocacy, and organizing needed to take on book bans, internet speech, campaign finance reform, and uphold all our civil liberties.

ALA compiles data on book challenges from reports filed by library professionals in the field and from news stories published throughout the United States.

Books are being censored, banned – even burned – at an alarming rate. Books with important ideas within their pages. Together, we will keep them safe.

Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection of the First Amendment rights of the comics art form and its community of retailers, creators, publishers, librarians, and readers.

The International Literacy Association (ILA) is a professional organization with a mission of connecting research and practice to continuously improve the quality of literacy instruction across the globe.

We envision an American society that understands, values, defends, and vigorously exercises free expression in a just, egalitarian, diverse, and inclusive democracy.

Established December 1, 1967, the Office for Intellectual Freedom is charged with implementing ALA policies concerning the concept of intellectual freedom as embodied in the Library Bill of Rights, the Association’s basic policy on free access to libraries and library materials. The goal of the office is to educate librarians and the general public about the nature and importance of intellectual freedom in libraries.

On Right to Read Day, Monday, April 7, join us to celebrate the right to read and spotlight the other freedoms that are lost when libraries and library workers are attacked.