National Organization for Decent Literature
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The National Organization for Decent Literature was an American pressure group active in campaigning for the censorship
of literature
. It was largely led by Roman Catholic priests. It was founded in 1938, and ran until the late 1960s. It campaigned against comic book
s and what its leaders saw as indecent literature in general.
Censorship
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of literature
Literature
Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...
. It was largely led by Roman Catholic priests. It was founded in 1938, and ran until the late 1960s. It campaigned against comic book
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
s and what its leaders saw as indecent literature in general.
See also
- Citizens for Decent LiteratureCitizens for Decent LiteratureCitizens for Decent Literature was a pro-censorship advocacy body founded in 1958 by the Roman Catholic anti-pornography campaigner Charles Keating which advocated reading classics, not "smut."...
- Churchmen's Committee for Decent PublicationsChurchmen's Committee for Decent PublicationsThe Churchmen's Committee for Decent Publications was a Protestant pro-censorship, anti-pornography advocacy group. It was a contemporary of the Roman Catholic National Organization for Decent Literature and the National Legion of Decency....
- National Legion of DecencyNational Legion of DecencyThe National Legion of Decency was an organization dedicated to identifying and combating objectionable content, from the point of view of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States, in motion pictures...