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2007 High School
First Amendment Contest

The Center for First Amendment Rights, Inc. is proud to announce the 2007 essay contest winners:

First Prize: Geoffrey Carr of William H. Hall High School for How the First Amendment Impacts Me, My Life, My Community, My World.

Second Prize: Zachary Vasile of Southington High School for Importance of the First Amendment.

Third Prize: Amira Anuar of West Haven High School for The First Amendment: What Would We Do Without It?.

Honorable Mention: David Ritter of Immaculate High School for Second to None.

Honorable Mention: Bethany de Gant of Stratford High School for this essay.

What's new:

May 5, 2008: CFAR is merging into the ACLU Foundation


We added the announcement for the 2008 Symposium on May 5 featuring Anthony Lewis, Chris Finan and Judith Resnik.


We added Huck Finn ban would be lesson in intolerance by Manchester High School Senior Siobhan Covill to our new Student Comment section.


We added a summary of the feedback [PDF] received from our 2007 High School Conference


The September 2007 [PDF] CFAR newsletter has been added to the site.