25th September
2014
The Board of Education has just had their attention directed to a most deplorable state of morals existing in our schools, and the evil has been traced to some degraded persons . . . poisoning the minds of boys and girls. —Reverend Samuel J. Shaw, United Presbyterian Church, San Diego.
In 1903 San Diego, the 14th-century novel The Decameron, was the target of the book censors. Read about the Deplorable State of Morals.