Not Free, Not for All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow by Cheryl Knott

Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book

Not Free, Not for All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow

Cheryl Knott

322 pages 2015

2 editions

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Americans tend to imagine their public libraries as time-honored advocates of equitable access to information for all. Through much of the twentieth century, however, many black Americans were denied access to public libraries or allowed admittanc...

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