On May 14, 1969, Carrie Coleman Robinson, a Black school librarian in Alabama, brought a landmark case to the US District Court. After being passed over for a promotion, Robinson sued Alabama’s Department of Education alleging that she had been denied equal protection as a department employee because of her race. Robinson’s case, and long career as a librarian, reveals much about the Jim Crow South and librarianship in the civil rights era.
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- Librarians, Segregated: The 1936 ALA Annual Conference
- 15 Years of Fear: The ALA and the Patriot Act
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- “Librarians Are More Freedom Fighters Than Shushers”: Carla Hayden
- Publications: Children's Books for General Reading, 1924-1929
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- Social Gatherings of Times Past: Century 21 Exposition (Seattle, 1962)
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- Traveling Libraries: The Library Extension Board and Rural Library Service
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2018
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- Out of the Closet & Onto the Shelves: Librarians and the Oldest Gay Professional Organization in the U.S.
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- Just for Fun: 22 Steps to Build Your Own Public Library
- Library Life: The Arthur Plotnik Photographs
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2017
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- “First Your Country, Then Your Rights”: African American Soldiers in WWI
- Research Strategies: Finding African American History Materials at the ALA Archives
- Publications: The Black Caucus Newsletter
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- The Books They Read: Library War Service in WWI
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- Nathaniel L. Goodrich Scrapbooks, 1881-1902
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- The A.L.A. and Armed Services Librarianship
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- Clara S. Jones: "Awareness is Not Burdened with Repression; It is Liberating"
- Preserving the Nearly Immortal Life of A.A.L.S. Headquarters Tour Guide and Mascot "Prissy".
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- Celebrating 140 Years of the ALA
- Oh the Things You Will Find...Preserving Materials at the ALA Archives
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- "Beyond the Hopes or Plans": ALA at the 1893 World's Fair
- Research Strategies: Navigating a Record Series Structure
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- "Public Library of the High Seas": ALA and the American Merchant Marine Library Association
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- Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015): Live Long and Prosper
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- National Library Week: "For a Better-Read, Better-Informed America"
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- Audiovisual Collections at the ALA Archives
- "Give the Next Man a Chance!" The Circulating Books of World War I
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- Burton E. Stevenson: ALA Representative in Europe
- Library/USA Exhibit at the 1964-5 New York World’s Fair
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- “The Best Man in America is a Woman": Katharine L. Sharp and the First "Lady Librarians"
- Banned Books Week
- “Capturing our Stories” Librarian Oral Histories Project Added to ALA Archives’ Digital Holdings
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- "Lots of Love (of both the revolutionary and non-revolutionary kind)": the History of the ALA's GLBT Round Table
- 40 Years of ALA Archives at the U of I
- Have you a card catalog? Katharine L. Sharp’s Catechism for Librarians
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- Announcing Digitized Chinese-American Librarian Association Newsletters!
- Library Buildings: Altgeld Hall, University of Illinois