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Author: Louisiana State Library
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Author: Louisiana State Library
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Author: Florence M. Jumonville
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807172596
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
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In 1925, Essae Martha Culver, a California librarian, arrived in Louisiana to direct a three-year project funded by the Carnegie Corporation that aimed to introduce public libraries to rural populations. Culver purchased a round-trip ticket, but she never used the second half. Instead, she stayed in Louisiana the rest of her life, working tirelessly to see libraries established in every parish by 1969. In Spreading the Gospel of Books, Florence M. Jumonville chronicles the impressive, colorful history of Louisiana parish libraries and the State Library of Louisiana. She draws upon Culver’s journals and library reports, in addition to correspondence, scrapbooks, and State Library internal documents, and includes photos from five decades, many never before published. The campaign to persuade individual parishes to financially support a library of their own was a long, uphill pull through poverty and politics, flood and famine, discouragement and depression, war and bureaucracy, ignorance and prejudice. Culver credited success to the citizens, whose thirst for books and embrace of the idea of a library inspired perseverance. In time, Culver’s Louisiana plan served as an exemplar of library development elsewhere in the United States as well as abroad. Culver touched the lives of generations of Louisianians who have never heard her name. Spreading the Gospel of Books is her story, along with that of colleagues and supporters, of making the dream of library service come true for all.
Author: Louisiana State Library
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 19
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Author: Louisiana State Library
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Author: Alecia P. Long
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469662744
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison's decision to arrest Clay Shaw on March 1, 1967, set off a chain of events that culminated in the only prosecution undertaken in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In the decades since Garrison captured headlines with this high-profile legal spectacle, historians, conspiracy advocates, and Hollywood directors alike have fixated on how a New Orleans–based assassination conspiracy might have worked. Cruising for Conspirators settles the debate for good, conclusively showing that the Shaw prosecution was not based in fact but was a product of the criminal justice system's long-standing preoccupation with homosexuality. Tapping into the public's willingness to take seriously conspiratorial explanations of the Kennedy assassination, Garrison drew on the copious files the New Orleans police had accumulated as they surveilled, harassed, and arrested increasingly large numbers of gay men in the early 1960s. He blended unfounded accusations with homophobia to produce a salacious story of a New Orleans-based scheme to assassinate JFK that would become a national phenomenon. At once a dramatic courtroom narrative and a deeper meditation on the enduring power of homophobia, Cruising for Conspirators shows how the same dynamics that promoted Garrison's unjust prosecution continue to inform conspiratorial thinking to this day.
Author: Margaret Dixon
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Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Author: Louisiana State Library
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Author: Louisiana State Library
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Author: John A. Humphry
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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