End of American censorship of written fiction. Which term is associated with this landmark change?

• A. Generation Gap
• B. Kinsey Report
• C. Redrup v New York
• D. Owsley Stanley

Answer: (C)

The key idea is how First Amendment protections began loosening censorship of printed fiction in the 1960s. Redrup v. New York refers to a series of late-1960s New York Court of Appeals rulings that reversed many obscenity convictions and held that publishing sexual material could not be censored simply for its content unless it met the legal definition of obscenity. These decisions helped shift the balance toward protecting expressive works, signaling the end of broad, automatic censorship of written fiction in the United States. The other options don’t fit this legal shift: a generation gap describes cultural differences, the Kinsey Report is research on sexuality, and Owsley Stanley is a counterculture figure not tied to obscenity law.