Zoia
Horn

Zoia Horn was born in 1918 in Ukraine and emigrated to the United States in 1926. In 1968, she became Bucknell University’s head librarian for the reference department. Horn developed strong views on how librarians should handle freedom of thought and controversies around the Vietnam War and censorship. She was the first librarian in the U.S. imprisoned for refusing to testify based on her principles.

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In 1972, FBI agents subpoenaed Horn for the Harrisburg Seven trial, a group of Catholic pacifists accused of conspiracy. She refused to testify because she valued freedom of thought, association, and speech too highly to share information as a librarian. For this, a judge sent her to jail and released her after twenty days. Due to her pacifism and protesting, Horn received multiple intellectual freedom awards.