The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South: Civil Rights and Local Activism

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2018
Contributors Author: Wayne A. Wiegand
Author: Shirley A. Wiegand
Language
English
Number of Pages
266 pp.
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
City
Baton Rouge, LA
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Region
United States
Library Type
Library Associations
Public Libraries
Demographics
African-Americans
Chronological Period
1950-1999
ISBN
9780807168677
Annotation

Received the 2019 Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award presented by the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association every third year to recognize the best book written in English in the field. 

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