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A right to read : segregation and civil rights in Alabama's public libraries, 1900-1965 / Patterson Toby Graham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Graham, Patterson Toby, 1969-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans and libraries--Alabama--History--20th century.
- African Americans and libraries.
- African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Civil rights movements--Alabama--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A dramatic chapter in American cultural history. * Winner of the Alabama Library Association's Alabama Author Award for Nonfiction Patterson Toby Graham is Director of the Digital Library of Georgia at the University of Georgia in Athens.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-183) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-1335-4
- OCLC:
- 463007177
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