Zoia Horn

Zoia Markovna Horn (née Polisar; March 14, 1918 – July 12, 2014) was an American librarian who is considered to be the first librarian ever to be jailed for refusing to divulge information that violated her belief in intellectual freedom. Horn, an outspoken member of the American Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Committee, worked at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania in the early 1970s. Horn was jailed for nearly three weeks for contempt of court after refusing to testify for the prosecution in the 1972 conspiracy trial of the "Harrisburg Seven" anti-war activists.

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Zoia Horn
Birth dateJanuary 01, 1918
Birth place
Odessa , Odessa Soviet Union
Education
Brooklyn College

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  1. http://archive.org/stream/zoiamemoirsofzoi00horn/zoiamemoirsofzoi00horn_djvu.txt
  2. http://libr.org/isc/issues/ISC25/articles/A%20COMMITMENT%20TO%20HUMAN%20RIGHTS.pdf
  3. http://www.cla-net.org/?page=118
  4. http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Zoia-Horn-1st-U-S-librarian-jailed-over-alleged-5624023.php
  5. https://archive.org/details/zoiamemoirsofzoi00horn
  6. https://web.archive.org/web/20140721075704/http:/libr.org/isc/issues/ISC25/articles/A%20COMMITMENT%20TO%20HUMAN%20RIGHTS.pdf
  7. https://web.archive.org/web/20140725004022/http:/www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Zoia-Horn-1st-U-S-librarian-jailed-over-alleged-5624023.php
  8. https://web.archive.org/web/20140726074202/http:/www.sfgate.com/news/article/S-F-Public-Library-to-Charge-Fee-for-Some-3027366.php
  9. https://web.archive.org/web/20141031043206/http:/www.cla-net.org/?page=118