<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: garamond,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; text-align: center;" class=""><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Secret History of Comics</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: garamond,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; text-align: center;" class=""><span style="font-weight: bold;">Urbana Free Library Celebrates Banned Books Week <br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: garamond,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; text-align: center;" class=""><span style="font-weight: bold;">Saturday, September 27 from 2 - 3pm at the Urbana Free Library</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-size: 16px; font-family: garamond,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: garamond,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="">In 1954, comic books were put on trial by
the United States government. A Senate investigation prompted the birth
of the Comics Code, a censorship body that shackled the medium for
decades. New research by scholar Carol Tilley reveals a secret history
behind the trials, including insights into the methods of Dr. Fredric
Wertham, whose findings weren't merely faulty, but also fabricated. Go
behind the scenes of this fateful moment in comics history with Wertham
researcher Carol Tilley (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and
learn the untold stories of Fredric Wertham, Estes Kefauver, and the
kids who tried to fight the tide of the anti-comics momentum. <br class="" style=""><br style="" class="">This
program is being presented during Banned Books Week - The American
Library Association's annual celebration of the Freedom to Read.
</div><div style="" class=""><br></div><div style="" class="">For more information, contact Carol Inskeep at 367-4405.<br style="" class=""></div></div></body></html>