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How Civil Rights Groups Defeated Hate Speech Laws

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By Samantha Barbas
| bedrockprinciple.com
The following is a guest essay from University of Iowa Professor of Law Samantha Barbas, which has been adapted from her recent article in the Journal of Free Speech Law. For a more in-depth discussion on this topic and more information about the primary sources cited below, you can read her full article here.
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PG-13: Some Material May Be Inappropriate

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By Betsy Golden Kellem, Samantha Barbas, Thomas Doherty, Kia Afra
| JSTOR Daily Verified
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. We might remember 1984 as a banner year for movies, but one of the most important milestones reached by the film industry had nothing to do with Amadeus, or Footloose, or even Splash. It was the introduction of nine simple words into the American film canon: “Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.” Hollywood producers have self-regulated since the earliest days of the studio system.
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The case that revolutionized libel law

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By Samantha Barbas, Philip Jenkins, Debie Thomas, Daniel Schultz
| Christian Century Verified
“Heed Their Rising Voices,” proclaimed the full-page ad that appeared in the Tuesday, March 29, 1960, edition of the New York Times. The ad requested donations to support the legal defense of Martin Luther King Jr., who had recently been arrested in Alabama on a trumped-up tax evasion charge.
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