Topic: U.S. Post Office

Mar 3,

1873

Comstock Act Passed – Era of Censorship Begins

Apr 11,

1913

President Wilson Segregates Federal Agencies

Apr 2,

1914

Post Office Bans Margaret Sanger’s “Woman Rebel”

Sep 21,

1915

Anthony Comstock Dies – Censorship Lives On

Jul 7,

1917

Government Repression Hits Socialist Opponents of War

Jul 7,

1917

Suppression of Dissent: “The Masses,” Anti-War Magazine, Held Non-Mailable

Jul 13,

1917

Activists Protest Post Office Censorship of Anti-War Publications

Sep 26,

1917

Post Office to Ban Emma Goldman’s “Mother Earth”

Nov 2,

1917

Post Office Ban on Anti-War “The Masses” Upheld – Repression of Dissent Expands

Apr 27,

1918

Hung Jury: “The Masses” Editors Not Convicted

Mar 5,

1921

Will Hays Becomes Postmaster General; Ends Some, But Not All, Post Office Censorship

Sep 7,

1922

Post Office Lifts Ban on Alexander Berkman’s “Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist”

Apr 5,

1926

H. L. Mencken Arrested in Boston in Arranged Censorship Case

Feb 1,

1928

Post Office Bans “Protest Against the Marines in Nicaragua” Stickers on Envelopes

Dec 27,

1928

Post Office Bans Anti-Fascist Italian Language Newspaper

Apr 14,

1942

Attorney General Biddle OKs Censoring Father Coughlin’s “Social Justice” Magazine

Jan 13,

1958

Supreme Court Ends Post Office Ban on Homosexual Materials

May 6,

1959

New York Post Office Seizes “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”

Jun 11,

1959

“Lady Chatterley’s Lover” Banned From the Mails

May 24,

1965

Supreme Court Strikes Down Postal Censorship Law

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