Tuesday, April 2, 2019

The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South wins Gleason Award


The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South - Cover





The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South: Civil Rights and Local Activism (Louisiana State University Press, 2018) by Wayne A. Wiegand and Shirley A. Wiegand, has won the  Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award bestowed by the American Library Association (ALA) Library History Round Table (LHRT).