Librarian's Library:Accor for All

摘要

Although as a profes-sion we pride ourselveson our commitment toaccess, it's a sad factthat library access has often beendenied to African Americans. InThe History of Public Library Ac-cess for African Americans in theSouth, or, Leaving Behind the Plow,David M. Battles charts this his-tory from the days of slavery tothe civil rights movement. Whilein the North most libraries werefully integrated by the early 1890s,in the South many libraries had"separate place" policies un-til the 1960s.