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Library Service to African Americans in Kentucky, from the Reconstruction Era to the 1960s
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by Reinette F. Jones
Sales Rank: 1415124
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Cover Type: Paperback with 208 pages
Published by: McFarland & Company December 20, 2001
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0786411546
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0786411542
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
Weighs: 10.1 ounces
From Library Journal
Jones, a librarian at the University of Kentucky Shaver Engineering Library, tells the contradictory stories of Kentucky's admirable training and employment of African American librarians and the state's deplorable lack of library service to most blacks from Reconstruction to the civil rights era. She celebrates Kentucky's first integrated classes and libraries at Berea College that continued from 1866 until the passage of the Day Law of 1905 mandating segregation. Jones discusses how in 1904, Henderson became the first U.S. city to build a public library structure (an annex to the local school) for African Americans; in 1905 Louisville was the first to have African American library managers and continued its groundbreaking activities with the establishment in 1912 of the first library education program for Negroes. And in 1963 the University of Kentucky Library School had its first African American graduate. Although the book's awkward structure (for example, a ten-page historical overview is followed by four chapters that repeat the overview in more detail) leads to unnecessary repetition, the history Jones recounts makes fascinating and worthwhile reading. For library history collections and for readers interested in civil rights or Southern history.
Rhea Joyce Rubin, Independent Lib. Consultant, Oakland
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
Although the majority of libraries in the state of Kentucky did not offer services to African Americans between the years 1860 and 1960, public libraries did employ them. The Louisville Public Library, a leader in the development of library management and education from 1905 to 1925, began in 1912 offering classes to train African American women to be librarians in segregated public library branches that were opening in the South. In 1925, an academic library program was developed for African Americans at the Hampton Institute in Virginia to continue the work that began in Kentucky. This movement culminated with Helen F. Frye's becoming the first African-American to graduate with a Master of Science degree in library science from the University of Kentucky Library School in 1963.
This work moves from the provision by Berea College of the first library services to a fully integrated student body in 1866 through the integration of the state's only accredited library science program at the University of Kentucky in 1949 to the civil rights initiatives of the 1960s. Also addressed are the interconnectedness of libraries and societal events and how one affected the other.
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