Published with the assistance of the Michael H. and Ayan Rubin Fund

Published by Louisiana State University Press
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Several paragraphs from chapter 1 first appeared in Wayne A. Wiegand, Part of Our Lives: A People’s History of the American Public Library (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015), and are reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press.

Several paragraphs from chapters 7 and 8 first appeared in Wayne A. Wiegand, “Forgotten Heroes in Civil Rights History,” American Libraries 48 (June 2017): 3–7.

Portions of chapter 9 and the epilogue first appeared in Wayne A. Wiegand, “‘Any Ideas?’ The American Library Association and the Desegregation of Public Libraries in the American South,” Libraries: Culture, History, and Society 1, no. 1 (March 2017): 1–22, copyright © 2017 by the American Library Association’s Library History Round Table. This article is used by permission of The Pennsylvania State University Press.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Names: Wiegand, Wayne A., 1946– author. | Wiegand, Shirley A., author.

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

Description: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017038119| ISBN 978-0-8071-6867-7 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 978-0-8071-6868-4 (pdf) | ISBN 978-0-8071-6869-1 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: 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.

Classification: LCC Z711.9 .W54 2018 | DDC 027.475—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017038119

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