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59 books match the query 'Public libraries' and 9 start with p
Privatizing Libraries
Jane Jerrard
American Library Association, 2012
Promoting Individual and Community Health at the Library
Mary Grace Flaherty
American Library Association, 2018
Protecting Intellectual Freedom in Your Public Library
American Library Association, 2012
Public Libraries Going Green
Kathryn American Library Association
American Library Association, 2010
Public Libraries and Internet Service Roles
American Library Association, 2009
Public Libraries and Resilient Cities
Michael Dudley
American Library Association, 2012
Public Libraries in Nazi Germany
Margaret F. Stieg
University of Alabama Press, 1992
"Margaret F. Stieg's thoroughly researched study, the first comprehensive examination of public libraries in Nazi Germany, reveals that library policy in the Third Reich was far more complex than we might assume, with the positive and the negative hopelessly entangled. . . . A solid and welcome contribution."
—American Historical Review
Public Library Start-Up Guide
Christine Lind Hage
American Library Association, 2004
Public in Name Only
The 1939 Alexandria Library Sit-In DemonstrationBrenda Mitchell-Powell
University of Massachusetts Press, 2022
Library History Round Table Reads Selection, March 2024
Alexandria Historical Society Special Merit Award, 2023
When Alexandria, Virginia’s first public library, was constructed just a few blocks from his home, Samuel Wilbert Tucker, a young, Black attorney, was appalled to learn that he could not use the library because of his race. Inspired by the legal successes of the NAACP in discrimination cases, he organized a grassroots protest to desegregate the library that his tax dollars supported.
Public in Name Only tells the important, but largely forgotten, story of Tucker and a group of Black citizens who agitated for change in the terms and conditions of their lives. Employing the combined strategies of direct-action public protest, nonviolent civil disobedience, and municipal litigation, Tucker’s initiative dovetailed with the national priorities and tactics of larger civil rights organizations. While Tucker’s campaign did not end with the desegregation of the Alexandria Library, but instead resulted in the creation of a “separate-and-unequal” Jim Crow Black branch, the sit-in demonstration represents a momentous early struggle for racial equity waged through civil rights activism.