Louise S. Robbins
Auteur de The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library
A propos de l'auteur
Louise S. Robbins is Associate Professor and Director, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Œuvres de Louise S. Robbins
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- female
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The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights,… par 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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- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 136
- Popularité
- #149,926
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 6