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Author:

Wiegand, Wayne A., 1946- author.

Title:

The desegregation of public libraries in the Jim Crow South : civil rights and local activism / Wayne A. Wiegand and Shirley A. Wiegand.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xii, 266 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

African Americans and libraries--Southern States--History--20th century.
Discrimination in public accommodations--Southern States--History--20th century.
Public libraries--Southern States--History--20th century.
Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--20th century.

Other Authors:

Wiegand, Shirley A., author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Jim Crow public libraries before 1954 -- Rumbles of discontent before 1960 -- Memphis, Tennessee, and Greenville, South Carolina -- Petersburg and Danville, Virginia -- Alabama -- Georgia -- Mississippi -- Black youth in rural Louisiana -- The American Library Association -- Appendix: selected list of public library protesters.

ISBN:

080716867X
9780807168677

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1004424858

LCCN:

2017038119

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)