This lecture will also be offered at 2 p.m., Jan. 21.
America has been battling over freedom of the press for centuries. Minnesota moved to the center of that battle in 1931 when the landmark legal case of Near v. Minnesota came before the U.S. Supreme Court. Officials at the highest level of state government used Minnesota’s powerful “gag” law to prevent Jay Near, small-time publisher of a Minneapolis scandal sheet, from printing his “anti-Black, anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic, and anti-labor” exposes. The trial’s surprising outcome forever altered the relationship between the U.S. government and the free press that informs our democracy. With distinguished journalism scholar Jane Kirtley.
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