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In 1950 Ruth W. Brown, librarian at the Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Public Library, was summarily dismissed from her job after thirty years of exemplary service, ostensibly because she had circulated subversive materials. In truth, however, Brown was fired because she had become active in promoting racial equality and had helped form a group affiliated with the Congress of Racial Equality. Louise S. Robbins tells the story of the political, social, economic, and cultural threads that became interwoven in a particular time and place, creating a strong web of opposition. This combination of forces ensnared Ruth Brown and her colleagues-for the most part women and African Americans-who championed the cause of racial equality. This episode in a small Oklahoma town almost a half-century ago is more than a disturbing local event. It exemplifies the McCarthy era, foregrounding those who labored for racial justice, sometimes at great cost, before the civil rights movement. In addition, it reveals a masking of concerns that led even Brown?s allies to obscure the cause of racial integration for which she fought. Relevant today, Ruth Brown?s story helps us understand the matrix of personal, community, state, and national forces that can lead to censorship, intolerance, and the suppression of individual rights. … (mais)
This book tells of a true story that took place during the 1950s. Ruth Brown, a librarian in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, was fired for supposedly keeping subversive periodicals in the library, but quite possibly this was a cover for her activism in civil rights in the town. What I appreciate about this book is that it really covers so many angles of the story; intellectual freedom, civil rights, the role of women... they all intersect in a peculiar way. Highly recommended. ( )
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In loving memory of four strong and courageous women in my own life: my mother, Nancy Booth Stevens, my grandmother, Anna "Nan" Roe Booth, and my models in the skirmishes for racial equality in Ada, Oklahoma, Marguerite Hawkinson and Ethylene Harris.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
In 1950 Ruth W. Brown, librarian at the Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Public Library, was summarily dismissed from her job after thirty years of exemplary service, ostensibly because she had circulated subversive materials. In truth, however, Brown was fired because she had become active in promoting racial equality and had helped form a group affiliated with the Congress of Racial Equality. Louise S. Robbins tells the story of the political, social, economic, and cultural threads that became interwoven in a particular time and place, creating a strong web of opposition. This combination of forces ensnared Ruth Brown and her colleagues-for the most part women and African Americans-who championed the cause of racial equality. This episode in a small Oklahoma town almost a half-century ago is more than a disturbing local event. It exemplifies the McCarthy era, foregrounding those who labored for racial justice, sometimes at great cost, before the civil rights movement. In addition, it reveals a masking of concerns that led even Brown?s allies to obscure the cause of racial integration for which she fought. Relevant today, Ruth Brown?s story helps us understand the matrix of personal, community, state, and national forces that can lead to censorship, intolerance, and the suppression of individual rights.
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