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The desegregation of public libraries in the Jim Crow South : civil rights and local activism / Wayne A. Wiegand and Shirley A. Wiegand.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wiegand, Wayne A., 1946- author.
- Wiegand, Shirley A., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans and libraries--Southern States--History--20th century.
- African Americans and libraries.
- Discrimination in public accommodations--Southern States--History--20th century.
- Discrimination in public accommodations.
- Public libraries--Southern States--History--20th century.
- Public libraries.
- Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- History.
- Southern States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 266 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- Jim Crow public libraries before 1954
- Rumbles of discontent before 1960
- Memphis, Tennessee, and Greenville, South Carolina
- Petersburg and Danville, Virginia
- Alabama
- Georgia
- Mississippi
- Black youth in rural Louisiana
- The American Library Association
- Appendix: selected list of public library protesters.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807168677
- 080716867X
- OCLC:
- 1004424858
- Publisher Number:
- 99976363537
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