The dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown : civil rights, censorship, and the American library /

The dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown : civil rights, censorship, and the American library / by Louise S. Robbins.

In 1950 Ruth W. Brown, librarian at the Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Public Library, was summarily dismissed from her job after thirty years of exemplary service, ostensibly because she had circulated subversive materials. In truth, however, Brown was fired because she had become active in promoting raci...

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Main Author: Robbins, Louise S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2000]
Subjects:
Brown, Ruth Winifred.
Bartlesville Public Library (Bartlesville, Okla.) > History > 20th century.
African Americans and libraries > Oklahoma > Bartlesville > History > 20th century.
Libraries and communism > Oklahoma > Bartlesville > History > 20th century.
Civil rights workers > Employment > Oklahoma > Bartlesville > History > 20th century.
Public librarians > Employment > Oklahoma > Bartlesville > History > 20th century.
Public libraries > Censorship > Oklahoma > Bartlesville > History > 20th century.
Public libraries > Censorship > Case studies.
Simmons University. > Library. > Gifts. Spiewak.

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