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Genreflecting advisory seriesWiegand, Wayne A.
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Louisiana State University Press 2018
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Summary: "Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Two of three Americans frequent a public library at least once a year, and nearly that many are registered borrowers. Although library authorities have argued that the public library functions primarily as a civic institution necessary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Libraries Unlimited 2006