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The desegregation of public libraries in the Jim Crow South civil rights and local activism /

"Wayne A. and Shirley A. Wiegand tell the comprehensive story of the integration of southern public libraries. As in other efforts to integrate civic institutions in the 1950s and 1960s, the determination of local activists won the battle against segregation in libraries. In particular, the wil...

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Main Author: Wiegand, Wayne A., 1946-
Other Authors: Wiegand, Shirley A.,
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2018.
Physical Description: xii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
African Americans and libraries -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Discrimination in public accommodations -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Public libraries -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Public libraries.
Discrimination in public accommodations.
Civil rights movements.
African Americans and libraries.
United States -- Südstaaten.
Southern States.
Table of Contents:
  • Jim Crow public libraries before 1954
  • Rumbles of discontent before 1960
  • Memphis, Tennessee, and Greenville, South Carolina
  • Petersburg and Danville, Virginia
  • Alabama
  • Georgia
  • Mississippi
  • Black youth in rural Louisiana
  • The American Library Association
  • Appendix: selected list of public library protesters.

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