The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown
Subtitle: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library
Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr
Published: December 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780806131634
Subjects: History - General History; United States - State & Local - General; Libraries and communism; Employment; Public Libraries; U.S. - Political And Civil Rights; Oklahoma; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language; History; Censorship; Civil Rights; Library & Information Science; Brown, Ruth Winifred; Bartlesville; 20th century; African Americans and libraries; Civil rights workers
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.