A right to read : segregation and civil rights in Alabama's public libraries, 1900-1965 / / Patterson Toby Graham.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Graham, Patterson Toby, 1969-
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xiii, 191 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

• 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• Unpublished Sources.