In 1873, the federal government of the United States passed a law known as the Comstock Act, a motion that would later go on to have startling influence on the future trajectory of literary censorship.  The Comstock Act was pushed for by a group known as the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, headed by its titular leader Anthony Comstock. Comstock was a proclaimed reformer that advocated for the restoration of classic, religiously founded, values in literature and communication....

During the burgeoning Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, groups such as the Black Panthers and the earlier Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee made one principle a particularly notable tenet of their movement. In marginalized neighborhoods where education was little-supported, liberatory movements took it into their own hands to provide truly effective resources to students, with curriculums that emphasized critical thinking, autonomy, and in the case of the Panthers’ initial...

As seen in our previous entry, the normalized dominance of ‘standard English’ is quickly beginning to become a significant detriment to both the quality and outcome of education, whether creating a disparity in access or posing ethical problems or various other ever-growing issues. However, steps to actually achieve fair and improved education seem, at first, much less defined, so much that the matter of achievability has become a particular argument for critics of improved linguistic equity....