The History of Public Library Access for African Americans in the South by David M. Battles

Author:David M. Battles
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2009-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. Tommie Dora Barker, Libraries of the South: A Report on Developments, 1930–1935 (Chicago: American Library Association, 1936), 87.

2. Figures and quote are from Wallace Van Jackson, “Negro Library Workers,” Library Quarterly 11 (January 1940): 97. Also see U.S. Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (1940), and Mildred A. Feeney, “The Employment of Negro Librarians in American Public Libraries” (master’s thesis, Kent State University, 1950).

3. Jessie C. Smith, “Black Women, Civil Rights, and Libraries” in Untold Stories: Civil Rights, Libraries, and Black Librarianship, ed. John Mark Tucker (Champaign: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998), 141–50.

4. Toby Patterson Graham, “Segregation and Civil Rights in Alabama’s Public Libraries: 1918–1965” (Ph.D. diss., University of Alabama, 1998), 116.

5. “Establishment of African American Public Library Service in Louisiana,” Louisiana Libraries 63, no. 3 (Winter 2001): 23–25.

6. “Dr. Eliza Valeria Atkins Gleason,” Digital Library, at diglib.lib.utk.edu (accessed July 26, 2008).

7. Eliza Atkins Gleason, The Southern Negro and the Public Library (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1941), 72–73.

8. For more information, see Gleason, Southern, 84–85; Reinette F. Jones, Library Service to African Americans in Kentucky, from Reconstruction Era to the 1960s (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Company, 2002), 65.

9. Gleason, Southern, 108.

10. Gleason, Southern, introduction and 63.

11. L. D. Reddick, “Where Can a Southern Negro Read a Book?” New South 9, no. 1 (January 1954): 5–11.

12. Dan R. Lee, “From Segregation to Integration,” in Untold Stories: Civil Rights, Libraries, and Black Librarianship, ed. John Mark Tucker (Champaign: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998), 101–2.

13. Graham, “Segregation,” 130–40.

14. Quotes are from Graham, “Segregation,” 118, 125. For more information, see “ALA and the Segregation Issue,” ALA Bulletin 55 (June 1961): 485–86.

15. Archie L. McNeal, “Integrated Service in Southern Public Libraries,” Library Journal 86, no. 11 (June 1, 1961): 2045–48.

16. Jones, Library Service, 12, 59–60.

17. M. E. Frayser, “Negroes Use Libraries,” Southern Frontier 1, no. 4 (April 1940): 2.

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