CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction

1  Jim Crow Public Libraries before 1954

2  Rumbles of Discontent before 1960

3  Memphis, Tennessee, and Greenville, South Carolina

4  Petersburg and Danville, Virginia

5  Alabama

6  Georgia

7  Mississippi

8  Black Youth in Rural Louisiana

9  The American Library Association

Epilogue

APPENDIX: Selected List of Public Library Protesters

NOTES

NOTE ON PRIMARY SOURCES

INDEX