Stifled Laughter: One Woman's Story About Fighting Censorship - Hardcover

A story of national interest chronicling one woman's struggle to restore literary classics to public classrooms of rural north Florida.

Part memoir, part courtroom drama, part primer for fighting assaults on free speech, Stifled Laughter is the story of one woman's efforts to restore literary classics to the classrooms of rural north Florida. Johnson's honest, often hilarious, first-person account of censorship in its modern form provides valuable insight into why what our children read at school remains a controversial issue, and why free speech in America remains a precarious right. For anyone who has ever wondered just how far the religious right will go in limiting free expression, this book proves once again that the personal is political. Parents and teachers, writers and readers - all will benefit from Johnson's experience and all will be touched by her spirit.