When I was a kid in Boston, the Watch and Ward Society was very real.
Seems surreal now!
I remember at Boys Latin getting a list of the books banned by the Watch and Ward society ,,,, now it look like a pretty good list of books to buy for your favorite niece as she approaches puberty or as a gift to some young literate goy looking for a sophisticated explanation of the hormones.
I wonder how many of these are on library shelves in Alabama?
Here is a list of BIB books on the Watch and Ward society list:
- Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (suppressed, 1881)[7]
- The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (1894)[7]
- Three Weeks by Elinor Glyn (1909)[7]
- Many Marriages by Sherwood Anderson (1923)[7]
- Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley (1923)[7]
- The American Mercury (magazine, 1926)[7]
- Desire Under the Elms‘ by Eugene O’Neill (play, 1926)[7]
- Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis (1927)[7]
- An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1927)[7]
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1927)[7]
- Oil! by Upton Sinclair (1927)[7]
- Black April by Julia Peterkin (1927)[7]
- Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos (1927)[7]
- Mosquitoes by William Faulkner (1927)[7]
- Nigger Heaven by Carl Van Vechten (1927)[7]
- The World of William Clissold by H.G. Wells (1927)[7]
- Dark Laughter by Sherwood Anderson (1927)[7]
- Strange Interlude by Eugene O’Neill (play, 1929)[7]
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence (1929)[7]
- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (magazine serial 1929)[7]
- Jews Without Money by Michael Gold (1930)[7]
- God’s Little Acre by Erskine Caldwell (1933)[7]
- Within the Gates by Seán O’Casey (play, 1935)[7]
- The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman (play, 1935)[7]
- Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets (play, 1935)[2]
- Strange Fruit by Lillian Smith 1944[7]
- Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor (1944)[7]
- “The Moon is Blue” (1953)
- “Wake Up Little Susie” by The Everly Brothers (song, 1957))[8]
- Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs (1965)[6]
There’s nothing at the Wikipedia article to imply that the listing they have posted (and which was reproduced here) originated from the Watch and Ward Society as the editor has indicated.
Gosh Bob ..
You must not have known that Wikipedia entries are in the public domain.
Are you still African American as in your Avatar?