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Sur le rabat de la jaquette : "Wayne A. and Shirley A. Wiegand tell the comprehensive story of the integration of southern public libraries. As in other efforts to integrate civic institutions in the 1950s and 1960s, the determination of local activists won the battle against segregation in libraries. In particular, the willingness of young black community members to take part in organized protests and direct actions ensured that local libraries would become genuinely free to all citizens ..."

Social problems --- Human rights --- Public buildings --- anno 1900-1999 --- United States --- Civil rights movements --- Public libraries --- Discrimination in public accommodations --- African Americans and libraries --- County libraries --- Libraries, County --- Libraries --- Afro-Americans and libraries --- Libraries and African Americans --- Libraries and Negroes --- Library services to African Americans --- Public accommodations, Discrimination in --- Race discrimination in public accommodations --- Segregation in public accommodations --- History --- Services to African Americans --- United States of America --- USA --- Southern States. --- Südstaaten

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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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