Douglas E. Abrams

University of Missouri

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Board of Education v. Pico, 457 U.S. 853 (1982)

In Board of Education v. Pico, the sharply divided Court held that the school board violated the students’ First Amendment rights by removing from high school and junior high school libraries several books that the board found ‘‘anti-American, anti- Christian, anti-Semitic, and just plain filthy.’’

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