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In 1950 Ruth W. Brown, librarian at the Bartlesville public library, was dismissed from her job after thirty years of exemplary service, ostensibly because she had circulated subversive materials. In truth, however, Brown was fird because she was active in a group affiliated with the Congress of racial equality. This episode in a small Oklahoma town exemplifies the strange period of the Cold War known as the McCarthy era, foregrounding those who labored for racial justice, sometimes at great cost, before the civil rights movement.