The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library by Louise S. Robbins

The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library

Louise S. Robbins

256 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative medium-paced

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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 ...

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