The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown
Subtitle: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: January 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780806133140
Subjects: Acquisitions & collection development; Censorship; c 1945 to c 1960; Social Science; History: American; History; History - U.S; Oklahoma; United States - 20th Century/50s; Discrimination & Racism; United States - 20th Century
First sentence: Even at a distance of nearly half a century many residents of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, still feel strongly about Ruth W. Brown, the single, middle-aged public librarian who lost her job of thirty years in 1950 amid charges that she circulated communist and subversive materials-the Nation, the New Republic, and Soviet Russia Today.