National Organization for Decent Literature
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The National Organization for Decent Literature was an American pressure group active in campaigning for the censorship of literature. It was largely led by Roman Catholic priests.[1] It was founded in 1938, and ran until the late 1960s.[2] It campaigned against comic books and what its leaders saw as indecent literature in general.
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