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Remembering the 1933 Anti-Bookburning Ceremony of Samuel Harden Church

Original: The 1933 Anti-Bookburning Ceremony of Samuel Harden Church

Samuel Harden Church, the president of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, is remembered for holding an anti-bookburning ceremony in 1933. The event took place as Nazi book burnings spread across Germany, and it stood as a public defense of books and free access to knowledge. The story is being recirculated as a historical example of librarians standing up against censorship.

Why now: Interest in historical defenses of books and libraries against censorship has resurfaced.

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• The 1933 Anti-Bookburning Ceremony of Samuel Harden Church · Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

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