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Author Graham, Patterson Toby, 1969-

Title A right to read : segregation and civil rights in Alabama's public libraries, 1900-1965 / Patterson Toby Graham
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 191 pages) : illustrations
Contents List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Black Libraries and White Attitudes, The Early Years: Birmingham and Mobile, 1918-1931; 2. Black Libraries and White Attitudes II: The Depression Years; 3. African-American Communities and the Black Public Library Movement, 1941-1954; 4. The Read-In Movement: Desegregating Alabama's Public Libraries, 1960-1963; 5. Librarians and the Civil Rights Movement, 1955-1965; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliographic Essay
Summary A dramatic chapter in American cultural history. * Winner of the Alabama Library Association's Alabama Author Award for Nonfiction Patterson Toby Graham is Director of the Digital Library of Georgia at the University of Georgia in Athens
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-183) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject African Americans and libraries -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century
Civil rights movements -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- Archives & Special Libraries.
African Americans and libraries
African Americans -- Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Alabama
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2001005918
ISBN 9780817313357
0817313354