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Court cleared Ginsberg's Howl of obscenity on this day in 1957
Original: Today in Labor History October 3, 1957: The California State Superior Court ruled that the book Howl and Other Poems, by
On October 3, 1957, the California State Superior Court ruled that Allen Ginsberg's book Howl and Other Poems was not obscene. The landmark decision followed the obscenity trial of poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who had published the work through his City Lights bookshop in San Francisco. The ruling is remembered as a milestone for free expression, and Ginsberg drew the poem partly from a peyote vision of San Francisco's Sir Francis Drake hotel.
Why now: The anniversary of a landmark free-speech ruling in American literary history is being marked in labor history retrospectives.
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- Today in Labor History October 3, 1957: The California State Superior Court ruled that the book Howl and Other Poems, by Allen Ginsberg, was not obscene. The poem was based, in part, on a horrifying peyote hallucination he had of the glitzy Sir Frances Drake hotel, in San… · MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social · 6
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