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Celebrating Libraries and Reading
Diverse Books - African American/ Black Experience in the U.S.
For Young Library Lovers
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Diverse Books - African American/ Black Experience in the U.S.
For Young Library Lovers
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Every Tuesday Lola and her mother visit their local library to return and check out books, attend story readings, and share a special treat.
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"Although illegal, racial segregation was strictly enforced in a number of American states, and public libraries were not immune. Numerous libraries were desegregated on paper only: there would be no cards given to African Americans, no books for them to read, and no furniture for them to use. It was these exact conditions that helped create Freedom Libraries. Over eighty of these parallel libraries appeared in the Deep South, staffed by civil rights...