A right to read
Subtitle: segregation and civil rights in Alabama's public libraries, 1900-1965
By: Patterson Toby Graham.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press; University Alabama Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: African Americans and libraries -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century.; African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century.; Civil rights movements -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century.
Description: "The tradition of American public libraries is closely tied to the perception that these institutions should be open to all without regard to social background. Such was not the case in the segregated South, however, where public libraries barred entry to millions of African Americans and provided tacit support for a culture of white supremacy.

A Right to Read is the first book to examine public library segregation from its origins in the late 19th century through its end during the tumultuous years of the 1960s civil rights movement. Graham focuses on Alabama, where African Americans, denied access to white libraries, worked to establish and maintain their own "Negro branches." These libraries - separate but never equal - were always underfunded and inadequately prepared to meet the needs of their constituencies."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-183) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I. Black Libraries and White Attitudes, The Early Years:; title: Birmingham and Mobile, I9I8-193I; title: Birmingham and the Booker T Washington; title: Branch Library; title: Mobile and the Davis Avenue Branch Library; title: 2. Black Libraries and White Attitudes II:; title: The Depression Years; title: Black Libraries and Philanthropy during the; title: Depression: Walker County; title: The Works Progress Administration and; title: Black Libraries; title: The Tennessee Valley Authority: Black Libraries and; title: Regional Development; title: Welfare Capitalism and the National Youth; title: Administration: The Slossfield Negro Branch Library; title: 3. African-American Communities and the Black Public; title: Library Movement, 1941-1954; title: The Dulcina DeBerry Branch Library, Huntsville; title: The Union Street Branch Library, Montgomery; title: Birmingham Negro Advisory Committee; title: 4. The Read-In Movement: Desegregating Alabama's; title: Public Libraries, 1960-1963; title: Mobile, I96I; title: Montgomery, 1962; title: Huntsville, 1962; title: Birmingham, 1963; title: Anniston, I963; title: 5. Librarians and the Civil Rights Movement, x955-I965; title: Juliette Hampton Morgan and the Montgomery; title: Bus Boycott; title: Emily Wheelock Reed and The Rabbits' Wedding; title: Controversy; title: Patricia Blalock and the Selma Public Library; title: The American Library Association; title: The Alabama Library Association; title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: Bibliographic Essay; title: Contemporary Literature on Segregated Libraries, 1913-I953; title: Contemporary Literature on Segregated Libraries, 1954-1972; title: Atlanta University Theses; title: American Library Association; title: Library History Secondary Works; title: Segregated Libraries and Progressivism; title: The Civil Rights Movement in Alabama; title: Other Historical Works on Race; title: Unpublished Sources.