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ERIC Number: ED166758
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1978
Pages: 170
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Free Speech Yearbook 1978.
Phifer, Gregg, Ed.
The 17 articles in this collection deal with theoretical and practical freedom of speech issues. The topics include: freedom of speech in Marquette Park, Illinois; Nazis in Skokie, Illinois; freedom of expression in the Confederate States of America; Robert M. LaFollette's arguments for free speech and the rights of Congress; the United States Supreme Court and the First Amendment; Supreme Court decisions on free press/fair trial conflicts; psychological dimensions of free speech attitudes; the Federal Communications Commission and censorship; philosophical bases of antipornography arguments; the high school press and the First Amendment; a comparison of John Milton's "Areopagitica" with Thomas Erskine's addresses on freedom of speech; the free speech fights of the Industrial Workers of the World; an employee rights scale; a bibliography of materials published from July 1977 to June 1978 that deal with freedom of speech; lists of collections of materials on religious freedom; arguments by 12 advocates of censorship; and disruptions during General William Westmoreland's appearance on a Florida campus to speak in support of the Panama Canal treaties. (FL)
Speech Communication Association, 5205 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, Virginia 22041 ($4.00 member, $4.50 non-member)
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: Speech Communication Association, Falls Church, VA. Commission on Freedom of Speech.
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A
Note: Not available in hard copy due to marginal legibility of original document