TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wiegand,Wayne A.
AU  - Wiegand,Shirley A.
TI  - The desegregation of public libraries in the Jim Crow South: civil rights and local activism 
SN  - 9780807168684
AV  - Z711.9 .W54 2018eb
U1  - 027.475 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Baton Rouge
PB  - Louisiana State University Press
KW  - African Americans and libraries
KW  - Southern States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Discrimination in public accommodations
KW  - Public libraries
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - Biblioth�eques et Noirs am�ericains
KW  - �Etats-Unis (Sud)
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e si�ecle
KW  - Discrimination dans les lieux publics
KW  - Biblioth�eques publiques
KW  - Mouvements des droits de l'homme
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - Library & Information Science
KW  - Archives & Special Libraries
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Noirs americains
KW  - Droits
KW  - �Etats-Unis (sud)
KW  - 20e siecle
KW  - ram
KW  - Mouvements des droits civiques
KW  - Bibliotheques publiques
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Livres et lecture
KW  - USA
KW  - S�udstaaten
KW  - gnd
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Jim Crow public libraries before 1954 -- Rumbles of discontent before 1960 -- Memphis, Tennessee, and Greenville, South Carolina -- Petersburg and Danville, Virginia -- Alabama -- Georgia -- Mississippi -- Black youth in rural Louisiana -- The American Library Association -- Epilogue -- Appendix : selected list of public library protesters
N2  - In The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South, Wayne A. and Shirley A. Wiegand tell the comprehensive story of the integration of southern public libraries. As in other efforts to integrate civic institutions in the 1950s and 1960s, the determination of local activists won the battle against segregation in libraries. In particular, the willingness of young black community members to take part in organized protests and direct actions ensured that local libraries would become genuinely free to all citizens. The Wiegands trace the struggle for equal access to the years before the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision, when black activists in the South focused their efforts on equalizing accommodations, rather than on the more daunting - and dangerous - task of undoing segregation. After the ruling, momentum for vigorously pursuing equality grew, and black organizations shifted to more direct challenges to the system, including public library sit-ins and lawsuits against library systems. Although local groups often took direction from larger civil rights organizations, the energy, courage, and determination of younger black community members ensured the eventual desegregation of Jim Crow public libraries. The Wiegands examine the library desegregation movement in several southern cities and states, revealing the ways that individual communities negotiated - mostly peacefully, sometimes violently - the integration of local public libraries. This study adds a new chapter to the history of civil rights activism in the mid-twentieth century and celebrates the resolve of community activists as it weaves the account of racial discrimination in public libraries through the national narrative of the civil rights movement
UR  - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1791516
ER  -