In Silence or Indifference: Racism and Jim Crow Segregated Public School Libraries

by Wayne A. Wiegand

Book Overview

Librarians around the country are currently on a battleground, defending their right to purchase and circulate books dealing with issues of race and systemic racism. Despite this work, the library community has often overlooked--even ignored--its own history of white supremacy and deliberate inaction on the part of white librarians and library leadership. Author Wayne A. Wiegand takes a crucial step to amend this historical record. In Silence or...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496853075
• ISBN13: 9781496853073
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 256 Pages