Public in Name Only: The 1939 Alexandria Library Sit-in Demonstration

Reference Type	Book
Year of Publication	2022
Author	Author: Brenda Mitchell-Powell
Language	English
Number of Pages	248 pp.
Publisher	University of Massachusetts Press
City	Amherst, MA
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Region	United States
Library Type	Public Libraries
Demographics	African-Americans
Chronological Period	1900-1949
ISBN	9781625346575
Annotation	Contents: Black Access to Public Libraries: The Infrastructures of Black Literary and Print Culture Bold Beginnings: The NAACP, Samuel Wilbert Tucker, and the Quest for Educational Equity Prelude to the Sit-In, Part One: History of the City of Alexandria History as Context: The Era of Jim Crow Prelude to the Sit-In, Part Two: The Genesis of the Alexandria Library Prelude to the Sit-In, Part Three: Premises and Rationales A Seat at the Reading Table: The 1939 Alexandria Library Sit-in Demonstration What Happened? What Changed?