Louise S. Robbins
Auteur van The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library
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Louise S. Robbins is Associate Professor and Director, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights,… door Louise S. Robbins
Scholarly tone, but very interesting story.
This book tells of a true story that took place during the 1950s. Ruth Brown, a librarian in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, was fired for supposedly keeping subversive periodicals in the library, but quite possibly this was a cover for her activism in civil rights in the town. What I appreciate about this book is that it really covers so many angles of the story; intellectual freedom, civil rights, the role of women... they all intersect in a peculiar way. Highly recommended.
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- 136
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- #149,926
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- 3.7
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- 2
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- 6