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Anthony Comstock
Anthony Comstock , 1844-1915, American morals crusader, b. New Canaan, Conn. He served with the Union army in the Civil War and was later active as an antiabortionist and in advocating the suppression of obscene literature. He was the author of the comprehensive New York state statute (1868) forbidd... Read more
Heywood Campbell Broun
Heywood Campbell Broun , 1888-1939, American newspaper columnist and critic, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. He worked on the New York Tribune (1912-21) and the New York World (1921-28), where his syndicated column, "It Seems to Me," began. In 1928 he transferred it to the Scripps-Howard newspapers, inclu... Read more
birth control
birth control practice of contraception for the purpose of limiting reproduction. Methods of Birth Control Male birth control methods include withdrawal of the male before ejaculation (the oldest contraceptive technique) and use of the condom, a rubber sheath covering the penis. The condo... Read more
censorship
censorship official prohibition or restriction of any type of expression believed to threaten the political, social, or moral order. It may be imposed by governmental authority, local or national, by a religious body, or occasionally by a powerful private group. It may be applied to the mails, spee... Read more

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Anthony Comstock
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Anthony Comstock The American antivice crusader Anthony Comstock (1844-1915) fought what he personally defined as immoral...in civil liberties relating to art and free speech. Anthony Comstock was born in New Canaan, Conn., the son of a well-to-... Read more
Comstock, Anthony
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature Comstock, Anthony (1844–1915), was head of a YMCA...the father of the so‐called Comstock law (1873) to exclude vicious matter...on immorality in art and literature. Anthony Comstock: Roundsman of the Lord (1927) is a... Read more
Comstock Law of 1873
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law COMSTOCK LAW OF 1873 The Comstock Law of 1873 was a federal law that...York City was twenty-nine-year-old Anthony Comstock, head of the New York Society for...influential New York philanthropists. Comstock used their money to lobby the New... Read more
Birth Control
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...to prohibit birth control in the United States. Anthony Comstock, the secretary of the Society for the Suppression...Articles of Immoral Use, but known popularly as the comstock law or Comstock Act (18 U.S.C.A. § 1416-62 [1964]; 19 U.S... Read more
Leech, Margaret (Kernochan)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature ...include The Back of the Book (1924) and Tin Wedding (1926), novels; Roundsman of the Lord (1927), a biography of Anthony Comstock written with Heywood Broun; Reveille in Washington (1941, Pulitzer Prize), a lively account of the capital during... Read more
Broun, Heywood (Campbell)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature ...Pieces of Hate, and Other Enthusiasms (1922) and Sitting on the World (1924), selected from his newspaper columns; and Anthony Comstock (1927), a biography written with Margaret Leech. A Collected Edition of the best of Broun's work was issued in 1941... Read more
Sanger, Margaret Higgins
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...would be canceled under the Comstock Act of 1873, a strict censorship...material. The law was named for Anthony Comstock, a special agent of the post...she would soon run afoul of Anthony Comstock. Sanger realized that the new... Read more
Heywood Campbell Broun
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...include The A. E. F. (1918); The Boy Grew Older (1922) and Gandle Follows His Nose (1926), novels; and a biography of Anthony Comstock (with Margaret Leech, 1927). It Seems to Me (1935) and Collected Edition (ed. by H. H. Broun, 1941) give the best... Read more
Birth Control and Family Planning
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...therapeutic purposes. The 1873 Comstock Law, a federal obscenity law named for Anthony Comstock (1844–1915) of...prosecution under the Comstock Law. Upon her return she...Congress in enacting the Comstock law had lacked crucial... Read more
Reproduction
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...prominent conservative watchdog was Anthony Comstock, a New York businessman who led...His work resulted in the federal comstock law of 1873, which criminalized...items. Some states passed "little Comstock laws" that prohibited the use of... Read more

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Griswold v. Connecticut
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...rarely used law for giving advice and a prescription for a contraceptive to a married couple. The law, a legacy of Anthony Comstock's anti-vice campaign of the late nineteenth century, had been interpreted to ban the use of contraceptives and the... Read more
Birth Control Movement
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...devices on the commercial market led Anthony Comstock, a moral crusader, to try to curb the trade. In 1873, at the behest of Comstock, Congress included clauses in a...birth control or abortion. The Comstock Act provided punishment of fines... Read more
Birth Control
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...States in 1873 in a Victorian purity crusade led by Anthony Comstock. For centuries, couples had used a variety of methods...condoms into mass production and the mass market. The Comstock laws prohibited all contraceptives and contraceptive... Read more
Censorship, Press and Artistic
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...encountered early legal resistance, was based on an act of Congress in 1865, and the 1873 Comstock Law, named for New York anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock. The U.S. attorney general then formally allowed Post Office officials censorship powers... Read more

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Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 12/22/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...questions the assertion that one man, Anthony Comstock, could effectively censor discussions...public gambling. Instead of viewing Comstock as a singular causal force in these reform efforts, Beisel looks at Comstock's work as part of a joint effort... Read more
Feminist censors endanger speech and women's rights.
Magazine article from: St. Louis Journalism Review; 11/1/1995; ; 700+ words ; Comstockery. Bowdlerizing. And now, MacDworkinism...bowdlerize. The crusades of Anthony Comstock, the man whose raised eyebrows...nineteenth century America, gave us Comstockery, a synonym for overzealous censorship. A century after Bowdler and Comstock, we now confront a new set of... Read more
Mass media made them do it?(Sexual Teens, Sexual Media: Investigating Media's Influence on Adolescent Sexuality)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of Sex Research; 11/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...R. Steele, and Kim Walsh-Childers. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002, 308 pages. Paper, $29.95. From Anthony Comstock's late 19th-century crusade against obscene literature to present-day parents' anxious suspicion that news reports... Read more
Against Obscenity: Reform and the Politics of Womanhood in America, 1873-1935.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...historical understanding about anti-obscenity movements in the United States. As Wheeler observes, there are studies of Anthony Comstock and his colleagues in the late nineteenth century, and the issue has also generated controversy among feminists in... Read more
FOR THE RECORD.(For the Record)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 3/29/2008; 544 words ; ...a daughter. March 26, 2008 Hahne - Sallie and Anthony Hahne, of Eugene, a daughter. Smith - Jeanine and...Andreason's Cremation & Burial Service, Springfield. Comstock - Raymond E. Comstock, 85, of Creswell, died March 12. A memorial service... Read more
On 'custody'.
Magazine article from: Trial; 2/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...A month later, a county sheriff's detective, Cheryl Comstock, contacted Alvarado's parents and told them that she...station and waited in the lobby while Alvarado went with Comstock to be interviewed. Alvarado later claimed that Comstock denied his parents' request to be present during the interview. ... Read more
Warfare qualifications.
Newspaper article from: Navy Supply Corps Newsletter; 7/1/2008; 129 words ; ...USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) LTJG Brian Cornell, SC, USN USS Comstock (LSD 45) ENS Shannon M. Daniels, SC, USN Submarine Warfare Officer USS City of Corpus Christi (SSN 705) CSSN (SS) Anthony D. Cruz, USN SKSN (SS) Terrell Davis, USN CSSR (SS) Samuel... Read more
Intolerant Alliance.
Magazine article from: Reason; 3/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...left and right. Scientific Comstockery Consider the campaign against...with prudish censorship: Anthony Comstock, Christian fundamentalist...Controversy, the rise of Comstock coincided with the rise of...them to a position much like Comstockery. Such bibliocrats removed... Read more
Quaboag Regional.(LOCAL NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA); 6/7/2009; 335 words ; ...Allan Collins-LaPointe, Matthew Michael Como, Jessica Anne Comstock, Arielle Virginia Day, Zachary Alexander Desmarais, Sarah Dorothy...Jennifer Lynn Plankey, Nicholas Mark Pluta, David Scott Ruth, Kyle Anthony Santos, Megan Ilene Sepanek, Tyler William Shepard, Kayla Parda... Read more
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Magazine article from: The Forensic Examiner; 12/22/2005; 700+ words ; ...Bitters, Jr. Jerome Robert Bittner Karen Irene Blackwood Anthony J. Blair Bill Blankenship Lawrence Robert Boemler Arnold...Collins Jacqueline S. Collins Ruth A. Collins-Willard Eric G. Comstock Joseph Charles Congero Michael G. Conrad Francis Joseph Cooley...Michael W. Mach Frank Edward Maggelet Julian ... Read more