The desegregation of public libraries in the Jim Crow South
Subtitle: civil rights and local activism
By: Wayne A. Wiegand, Shirley A. Wiegand
Contributors: Wiegand, Shirley A., author
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780807168677
Subjects: Public libraries; History; African Americans and libraries; Civil rights movements; Discrimination in public accommodations
Description: "Wayne A. and Shirley A. Wiegand tell the comprehensive story of the integration of southern public libraries. As in other efforts to integrate civic institutions in the 1950s and 1960s, the determination of local activists won the battle against segregation in libraries. In particular, the willingness of young black community members to take part in organized protests and direct actions ensured that local libraries would become genuinely free to all citizens."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-247) and index.
Table of contents: title: Jim Crow public libraries before 1954; title: Rumbles of discontent before 1960; title: Memphis, Tennessee, and Greenville, South Carolina; title: Petersburg and Danville, Virginia; title: Alabama; title: Georgia; title: Mississippi; title: Black youth in rural Louisiana; title: The American Library Association; title: Appendix : selected list of public library protesters.