The Playboy Forum

March, 1964

Censorship in ChicagoThe arrest of Mr. Hefner for publishing an allegedly obscene June issue of his excellent magazine makes me want to stand up and shout, "Long Live Soviet America."As a Negro, perhaps I should be concerning myself more with the passage of the Civil Rights Bill, but as an American I cannot help but concern myself with threats to take away freedoms that I now enjoy.It is my opinion that any group advocating the suppression of a literary work just because it doesn't con...