The Development of Southern Public Libraries and the African American Quest for Library Access, 1898-1963

Contents: 

• Reconstruction, redemption, and rebirth: southern public library development during the new south era
• A new vision, a new south: southern public library, development, 1890-1950
• Library users are seekers of knowledge: developing African American library service and educating Black librarians
• It is simply out of the question to eliminate the colorline: the development of Black library service in Atlanta and the integration of the Atlanta Public Library
• The library cannot be opened indiscriminately to White people and Negroes: Nashville and the quest for integrated library service
• This we believe: local Black activism, the National Civil Rights Movement, and the integration of the Birmingham Public Library