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A right to read segregation and civil rights in Alabama's public libraries, 1900-1965
Title
A right to read [electronic resource] : segregation and civil rights in Alabama's public libraries, 1900-1965 / Patterson Toby Graham.
ISBN
0817311440
Published
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2002.
Physical Description
xiii, 191 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale Community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2008. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 29, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-183) and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: I. Black Libraries and White Attitudes, The Early Years:
Birmingham and Mobile, I9I8-193I
Birmingham and the Booker T Washington
Branch Library
Mobile and the Davis Avenue Branch Library
2. Black Libraries and White Attitudes II:
The Depression Years
Black Libraries and Philanthropy during the
Depression: Walker County
The Works Progress Administration and
Black Libraries
The Tennessee Valley Authority: Black Libraries and
Regional Development
Welfare Capitalism and the National Youth
Administration: The Slossfield Negro Branch Library
3. African-American Communities and the Black Public
Library Movement, 1941-1954
The Dulcina DeBerry Branch Library, Huntsville
The Union Street Branch Library, Montgomery
Birmingham Negro Advisory Committee
4. The Read-In Movement: Desegregating Alabama's
Public Libraries, 1960-1963
Mobile, I96I
Montgomery, 1962
Huntsville, 1962
Birmingham, 1963
Anniston, I963
5. Librarians and the Civil Rights Movement, x955-I965
Juliette Hampton Morgan and the Montgomery
Bus Boycott
Emily Wheelock Reed and The Rabbits' Wedding
Controversy
Patricia Blalock and the Selma Public Library
The American Library Association
The Alabama Library Association
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliographic Essay
Contemporary Literature on Segregated Libraries, 1913-I953
Contemporary Literature on Segregated Libraries, 1954-1972
Atlanta University Theses
American Library Association
Library History Secondary Works
Segregated Libraries and Progressivism
The Civil Rights Movement in Alabama
Other Historical Works on Race
Unpublished Sources.
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