1957
Jan 15

NYC Bar Association Urges Curbs on Wiretapping

Jan 17

Defund HUAC Urges ACLU of Northern California

Feb 8

Free Speech Scholar Zechariah Chafee, Jr. Dies

Feb 24

Academy Awards Votes to Bar HUAC Witnesses

Feb 26

Supreme Court Nominee William Brennan Gives Surprising Answers at Confirmation Hearings

Mar 25

Stop that Poem! Customs Seizes Copies of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl”

Mar 27

And the Oscar Goes to . . . A Blacklisted Screenwriter – Dalton Trumbo

May 2

Senator Joe McCarthy Dies – McCarthyism Lives On

May 17

“Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom:” 1957 Civil Rights March on Washington

May 23

Cleveland Police Raid Dolree Mapp’s House: Case Leads to Exclusionary Rule

May 26

Paul Robeson Denied Passport – Gives London Concert by Phone

May 31

Famed Playwright Arthur Miller Convicted of Contempt of Congress

Jun 3

You Can’t Read “Howl”! Publisher of Now-Classic Poem Arrested

Jun 17

“Red Monday” – Supreme Court Limits Anti-Communist Measures

Jun 18

HUAC Chair to Supreme Court: “Bone Up on Communism”

Jun 24

Obscenity Not Protected by the First Amendment: “Roth v. United States”

Jun 28

President Eisenhower Marks Islamic Religious Freedom in America

Jul 3

Memphis Bans Film “Island in the Sun” For Interracial Theme

Jul 14

Fund for the Republic to Support Studies of Cold War Impact on Civil Liberties

Jul 15

Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood Leader, 2006-2018, Born

Jul 15

Daniel Seeger Claims CO Status – Begins Road to Supreme Court

Aug 10

End of an Era in Censorship – Boston Watch and Ward Society Gives Up

Aug 13

First African-American Family Moves into Levittown, PA – Is Greeted by Threats, Harassment & Cross Burnings

Aug 16

Stamford, Connecticut, Launches Anti-Obscene Magazine Campaign

Aug 28

Six Victims of 1692 Salem Witch Trials “Cleared” by Massachusetts Legislature

Sep 2

Martin Luther King Speaks at Highlander Folk School – Is Falsely Accused of Attending a “Communist Training School”

Sep 4

African-American Students Blocked From Entering Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas

Sep 4

Wolfenden Report in UK Recommends De-criminalizing Private, Consensual Homosexual Behavior Between Adults

Sep 7

First New York Meeting of the Daughters of Bilitis, First Lesbian Group in America

Sep 7

Vatican Condemns Race Discrimination in the U.S.

Sep 9

President Eisenhower (Reluctantly) Signs the Historic 1957 Civil Rights Act

Sep 23

Segregationist Mob Blocks School Integration in Little Rock

Sep 25

President Eisenhower Sends Troops to Little Rock to Enforce Integration

Oct 3

You Can Now Read “Howl”– Publisher Acquitted of Obscenity Charges

Oct 11

“Don’t Put the T*ilet Se*t On TV”

Nov 1

Alfred Kinsey Wins Sex Research Censorship Case

Nov 16

Catholic Bishops Adopt Plan to Fight Obscenity

Dec 5

New York City First in Nation to Pass Fair Housing Ordinance

Dec 29

Reporter William Worthy, Jr. Rejects Passport Restrictions

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