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The Huntington : library, art collections, botanical gardens
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ISBN: 0873281438 0873281349 Year: 2003 Publisher: San Marino, California Huntington Library


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Libraries and the reading public in twentieth-century America
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ISBN: 0299293238 9780299293239 9780299293246 0299293246 Year: 2013 Publisher: Madison, Wisconsin

The master's hand : drawings and manuscripts from The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

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Not free, not for all : public libraries in the age of Jim Crow
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ISBN: 1613763743 9781613763742 9781625341778 9781625341785 1625341776 1625341784 Year: 2015 Publisher: Amherst University of Massachusetts Press

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Americans tend to imagine their public libraries as time-honored advocates of equitable access to information for all. Through much of the twentieth century, however, many black Americans were denied access to public libraries or allowed admittance only to separate and smaller buildings and collections. While scholars have examined and continue to uncover the history of school segregation, there has been much less research published on the segregation of public libraries in the Jim Crow South. In fact, much of the writing on public library history has failed to note these racial exclusions.In Not Free, Not for All, Cheryl Knott traces the establishment, growth, and eventual demise of separate public libraries for African Americans in the South, disrupting the popular image of the American public library as historically welcoming readers from all walks of life. Using institutional records, contemporaneous newspaper and magazine articles, and other primary sources together with scholarly work in the fields of print culture and civil rights history, Knott reconstructs a complex story involving both animosity and cooperation among whites and blacks who valued what libraries had to offer. African American library advocates, staff, and users emerge as the creators of their own separate collections and services with both symbolic and material importance, even as they worked toward dismantling those very institutions during the era of desegregation.

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