NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR DECENT LITERATURE
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The National Organization for Decent Literature was a pressure group made up mostly of Roman Catholic Priests. It was founded 1938, and ran until the late 1960s when changes in society had obsoleted their “values” and rigid concepts of “decency”.
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The National Organization for Decent Literature was an American pressure group active in campaigning for the censorship of literature. A successor organization to the National Legion of Decency, it was largely led by Roman Catholic priests. The NODL was founded in 1938, and ran until the late 1960s. It is famous for banning Madame Bovary in 1954. It campaigned against pulp magazines, comic books and what its leaders saw as indecent literature in general.
