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Wright, Richard. "Freedom to Read: An Author's View of a Library." Library Journal, 85:4421-22, 15 December 1960. W405
Reprint of a passage from the author's Black Boy about his experience as a Negro boy trying to get books by H. L. Mencken from a public library, which did not admit Negroes.
[Wright, Susannah]. Report of the Trial of Mrs. Susannah Wright, for Publishing, in his shop, the Writings and Correspondences of R. Carlile; before Chief justice Abbott, and a Special Jury; in the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, London, on Monday, July 8, 1822. Indictment at the Instance of the Society for the Suppression of Vice. London, Printed and published by R. Carlile, 1822. 59p. (Also in Macdonald, Report of State Trials, vol. 6, pp. 213 ff.) W406
Mrs. Wright, a Nottingham laceworker, was a volunteer in Richard Carlile's shop and was prosecuted for selling a twopenny pamphlet, Addresses to the Reformers. She was convicted and imprisoned along with her 6-month-old baby. For her insistence that Christianity could not be a part of the law she was given an additional 18 months' sentence.
-------. Speech of Mrs. Susannah Wright before the Court of King's Bench, on the 14th of November, 1822; in the course of reading which she was continually interrupted by the Court, and before she had finished it Committed to Newgate for persisting to read, to be brought up again for judgment, on the fourth day of Hilary Term, 1823. London, R. Carlile, 1822. 24p. W407
Wright, Willard H. "Is Library Censorship Desirable?" ALA Bulletin, 5:59-60, July 1911. W408
The literary editor of the Los Angeles Times believes that librarians should permit on their shelves "any book whatsoever that the law countenances; provided, of course, there is a sufficient demand to warrant its purchase."
Wronski, Stanley P. "Use of 'Slanted' Materials in the Classroom." Educational Leadership, 10:26-30, October 1952. W409
"Should a wide variety of materials which advocate or protect vested interest be used in classrooms? This article discusses the right of students to free inquiry--and to the exercise of the critical thinking capacity which accompanies such inquiry."
Wyatt, Robert H. Coping with the Vigilantes, Censors, and Critics in 1963. Washington, D.C., National Education Association, 1963. 3p. mimeo. W410 §
The president-elect of the NEA, addressing the Association's convention in Detroit, 4 July 1963, discusses the forces that are today seeking to restrict the free flow of ideas in the public schools.
Wyatt, Sibyl W. Nineteenth Century English Novels and Austrian Censorship. Houston, Tex., Rice University, 1964. 224p. (Ph.D. dissertation, University Microfilm, no. 63-7177) W411
Titles of 32 English novels appeared on Metternich's Austrian index between 1820 and 1847, largely works with reference to rebellion against established authority, advocacy of democracy, and any kind of mass movement considered dangerous to the Empire.
Wylie, D. M. "Indecent Publications Act, 1954." New Zealand Libraries, 17:229-35, November-December 1954. W412
Criticism of the Act, which, the author states, was passed in haste, one week after receipt of the report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents. A library, under the Act, runs the risk of prosecution, if any objectionable work, even intended for adults, is seen by an adolescent who might be depraved by it.
Wylie, Philip. "Sex and the Censor." Nation, 159:39-40, 8 July 1944. W413
"Censorship is epidemic at the moment." Wylie discusses cases involving the "application of the prude's scissors and the prig's blue pencil" as well as the authoritarianism of the Army in rejecting such titles as Yankee from Olympus and Charles Beard's The Republic from the list prepared by the Council for Books in Wartime.
-------. "What Freedom of What Press?" Quill 39(2):10-12+, February 1951. W414
The writer denies that the American press practices freedom and that the press is uninfluenced by its advertisers. Those who write for the press operate under a system of taboos. To tamper with such taboos, to violate self-censorship, "is not within the power of most journalists since none can subsist sans bread and butter."
Wynne, J. C. "Fighting Lady: Congress-woman Granahan's Efforts to Combat Pornography." Catholic Preview of Entertainment, 6:25-28, April 1962. W415
Kathryn Granahan, as chairman of the House of Representatives subcommittee on Postal Operations, conducted an investigation of pornography being sent through the mails.
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