In Silence or Indifference: Racism and Jim Crow Segregated Public School Libraries

Reference Type	Book
Year of Publication	2024
Contributors	Author: Wayne A. Wiegand
Language	English
Number of Pages	249 pp.
Publisher	University Press of Mississippi
City	Jackson, MS
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Region	United States
Library Type	School Libraries
Demographics	Children Teenagers African-Americans
Chronological Period	1900-1949 1950-1999
ISBN	9781496853066
Annotation	Contents: Prologue An era of accommodation The White world of school librarianship to 1954 Black school librarianship's response before 1954 From "Brown" to Little Rock: 1954-1957 From Little Rock to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 The impact of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act on Jim Crow segregated school libraries, 1965-1968 Disintegration of segregated Jim Crow schools Epilogue