Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African Americans in the South (New Book)
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LHRT members have published a number of books about social justice in recent years, including this recent book by Mike Selby. Selby brought to light the story of the freedom libraries, collections created by activists in the South to provide library and information access to African-Americans. Many of these libraries were threatened or attacked by segregationists.
Here at the blog, we’ve been posting for the past few months about the impending publication of a key new title: Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African Americans in the South, By Mike Selby, Published by Rowman & Littlefield. It was recently released:
