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New-York Historical Society

Name: New-York Historical Society
Start: 2023-05-28T08:05:02-05:00
End: 2023-05-28T08:05:02-05:00
Location: New-York Historical Society

May 28 @ 8:05 am CDT

Details

Date:: May 28, 2023
Time:: 8:05 am CDT

Venue

New-York Historical Society; 170 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024 United States + Google Map
Phone:: (212) 873-3400; View Venue Website

Banned Books Week is the annual celebration of the freedom to read. The event is sponsored by a coalition of organizations dedicated to free expression, including American Booksellers for Free Expression, American Library Association, American Society of Journalists and Authors, Amnesty International USA, Association of University Presses, Authors Guild, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), Freedom to Read Foundation, GLAAD, Index on Censorship, National Book Foundation, National Coalition Against Censorship, National Council of Teachers of English, PEN America, People For the American Way Foundation, PFLAG, and Project Censored. It is endorsed by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. Banned Books Week also receives generous support from HarperCollins Publishers and Penguin Random House.