Graham, Patterson Toby, 1969-

A right to read segregation and civil rights in Alabama's public libraries, 1900-1965 / [electronic resource] : Patterson Toby Graham. - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2002. - xiii, 191 p. : ill.

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-- Segregated Libraries and Progressivism -- The Civil Rights Movement in Alabama -- Other Historical Works on Race -- Unpublished Sources.


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African Americans and libraries--History--Alabama--20th century.
African Americans--Civil rights--History--Alabama--20th century.
Civil rights movements--History--Alabama--20th century.


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