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Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Not Free, Not for All
Author: Cheryl Knott
Publisher: UMass + ORM
ISBN: 1613764332
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269
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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.
Publisher: UMass + ORM
ISBN: 1613764332
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
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.
The Free Public Libraries of Massachusetts
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Pages : 710
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Origin of the Free Public Library System of Massachusetts
Author: Jared Mann Heard
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Report of the Free Public Library Commission of Massachusetts
Author: Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Free Public Libraries in Massachusetts
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Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Catalogue of the Free Public Library of Lynn, Mass. Established 1862
Author: Free Public Library (Lynn, Mass.)
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Annual Report of the Directors of the Free Public Library, Worcester, Mass
Author: Worcester Free Public Library (Worcester, Mass.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Free Public Library
Author: Newark Public Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Public Documents of Massachusetts
Author: Massachusetts
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
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Annual Report of the Free Public Library of the Town of Concord
Author: Concord Free Public Library (Concord, Mass.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Languages : en
Pages : 270
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