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"The following research describes the methods used by various governmental agencies to censor the mass media. This research will examine the roles of governmental agencies such as the postal service, the Supreme Court, the State Department and local and state governments in the practice of censorship in the United States.

The first appearance of censorship recorded in the United States took place in March, 1815, in Philadelphia when Jessie Sharpless was convicted of exhibiting for money, a picture of a man in an "impudent" posture with a woman..

The first book ever to be censored in the post-Revolutionary United States was Fanny Hill, The Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, written by John Cleland (perhaps the greatest selling pornographic book of all time) in Massachusetts in 1821.. Shortly ... "

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