03843nam 2200565 a 450 991045408180332120200520144314.00-8173-1335-4(CKB)1000000000537482(EBL)438178(OCoLC)463007177(SSID)ssj0000238286(PQKBManifestationID)11924889(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000238286(PQKBWorkID)10222320(PQKB)10449311(MiAaPQ)EBC438178(Au-PeEL)EBL438178(CaPaEBR)ebr10237177(EXLCZ)99100000000053748220011001d2002 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA right to read[electronic resource] segregation and civil rights in Alabama's public libraries, 1900-1965 /Patterson Toby GrahamTuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc20021 online resource (208 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8173-1144-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-183) and index.Machine generated contents note: I. Black Libraries and White Attitudes, The Early Years: -- Birmingham and Mobile, I9I8-193I -- Birmingham and the Booker T Washington -- Branch Library -- Mobile and the Davis Avenue Branch Library -- 2. Black Libraries and White Attitudes II: -- The Depression Years -- Black Libraries and Philanthropy during the -- Depression: Walker County -- The Works Progress Administration and -- Black Libraries -- The Tennessee Valley Authority: Black Libraries and -- Regional Development -- Welfare Capitalism and the National Youth -- Administration: The Slossfield Negro Branch Library -- 3. African-American Communities and the Black Public -- Library Movement, 1941-1954 -- The Dulcina DeBerry Branch Library, Huntsville -- The Union Street Branch Library, Montgomery -- Birmingham Negro Advisory Committee -- 4. The Read-In Movement: Desegregating Alabama's -- Public Libraries, 1960-1963 -- Mobile, I96I -- Montgomery, 1962 -- Huntsville, 1962 -- Birmingham, 1963 -- Anniston, I963 -- 5. Librarians and the Civil Rights Movement, x955-I965 -- Juliette Hampton Morgan and the Montgomery -- Bus Boycott -- Emily Wheelock Reed and The Rabbits' Wedding -- Controversy -- Patricia Blalock and the Selma Public Library -- The American Library Association -- The Alabama Library Association -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliographic Essay -- Contemporary Literature on Segregated Libraries, 1913-I953 -- Contemporary Literature on Segregated Libraries, 1954-1972 -- Atlanta University Theses -- American Library Association -- Library History Secondary Works -- Segregated Libraries and Progressivism -- The Civil Rights Movement in Alabama -- Other Historical Works on Race -- Unpublished Sources.A dramatic chapter in American cultural history.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. African Americans and librariesAlabamaHistory20th centuryAfrican AmericansCivil rightsAlabamaHistory20th centuryCivil rights movementsAlabamaHistory20th centuryElectronic books.African Americans and librariesHistoryAfrican AmericansCivil rightsHistoryCivil rights movementsHistory027.4761Graham Patterson Toby1969-1029124MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454081803321A right to read2445384UNINA