Blast from the Past: Intellectual Freedom - Previous Revision

NCTE Centennial: A Blast from the Past

• Did you know that NCTE has been active in the courts to defend students' right to read? NCTE filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of Pico vs. Island Trees, a landmark case that eventually went to the U.S. Supreme Court and ensured that, as the Court ruled in 1982, "Local school boards may not remove books from school library shelves simply because they dislike the ideas contained in these books."

• Did you know that the earliest NCTE publication for elementary school teachers was entitled Reading for Fun? It was edited by Eloise Ramsey of Detroit.

• Did you know that NCTE books were best sellers as early as the 1930s? One, Home Reading, sold over 14,000 copies in 1937.

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