Zoia Horn (born 1918 in Odessa, Ukraine) is 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 after refus...
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Zoia Horn (born 1918 in Odessa, Ukraine) is 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 after refusing to testify for the prosecution in the 1972 conspiracy trial of the "Harrisburg Seven" anti-war activists.
Horn was born in Odessa, Ukraine in 1918, the daughter of a family of shopkeepers. She emigrated to Canada, then to New York City, with her family at age 8. She attended Brooklyn College and the Pratt Institute Library School, and began working as a librarian in 1942.
In 1964, she won a Humanities Fellowship to the University of Oregon where she became active in librarians’ organizations and conferences. She began working at the UCLA...
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