Interview with Barbara Bernstein on the Pico case - Supreme Court and school library censorship

I had the good fortune to interview Barbara Bernstein last week (Aug. 5) about her role in the landmark Island Trees Sch. Bd. v Pico case, the school library book removal case that went to the Supreme Court.  Barbara was the executive director of the Nassau County Chapter of the NYCLU, and responded to the call for help from the school librarian. Lively, informative, and definitely worth listening to.  19 minutes. 

Interview with BarbaraBerstein_PicoSchoolLibraryBookRemoval mp3

Special thanks to Donald Parker, Long Island Coalition Against Censorship for the introduction to Barbara, and to my husband for all the technical work.

The Oyez project has a terrific page on the case, including audio of the oral arguments: http://www.oyez.org/cases/1980-1989/1981/1981_80_2043

Comments

[Robert D. Morrow]

My older brother, Richard Morrow, (now deceased) was the Superintendent at the time of the Pico case. My family is compiling research on our family members' contributions in the world and I'd like to know if someone knows how to contact Steven Pico, the student who started the case.
Any information (email or phone number) of Mr. Pico would be very much appreciated.
Sincerely,
Robert D. Morrow, Ed.D
Professor Emeritus
University of the Pacific
209-244-5319 or [email protected]

[Mary M]

Thanks Dan!

[Dan Kleinman]

Mary, that was your first podcast, and is was EXCELLENT! What an interesting interview! It was so good I added it to the Wikipedia page on the case under "External Links."

Brava!