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title	:	The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown : Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library
author	:	Robbins, Louise S.
publisher	:	University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0806131632
print isbn13	:	9780806131634
ebook isbn13	:	9780585230146
language	:	English
subject	Bartlesville Public Library (Bartlesville, Okla.)--History--20th century, African Americans and libraries--Oklahoma--Bartlesville--History--20th century, Libraries and communism--Oklahoma--Bartlesville--History--20th century, Brown, Ruth Winifred, Civil r
publication date	:	2000
lcc	:	Z733.B283R63 2000eb
ddc	:	020/.896076696
subject	:	Bartlesville Public Library (Bartlesville, Okla.)--History--20th century, African Americans and libraries--Oklahoma--Bartlesville--History--20th century, Libraries and communism--Oklahoma--Bartlesville--History--20th century, Brown, Ruth Winifred, Civil r

Page i The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown

Page ii Ruth W. Brown, ca. 1950. Courtesy Ellen Brown Ericksen.

Page iii The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library By Louise S. Robbins UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS : NORMAN

Page iv ALSO BY LOUISE S. ROBBINS Censorship and the American Library: The American Library Association's Response to Threats to Intellectual Freedom, 19391969 (Westport, 1996) A portion of this work was previously published in Louise S. Robbins, "Racism and Censorship in Cold War Oklahoma: the Case of Ruth W. Brown and the Bartlesville Public Library," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 100 (July 1996): 1948 (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1996), and is used with permission. Chapter 5 was previously published as " 'Fighting McCarthyism through Film': A Library Censorship Case Becomes a Storm Center," Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 39 (Fall 1998): 291311, and is used with permission. This book is published with the generous assistance of the Wallace C. Thompson Endowment Fund, University of Oklahoma Foundation. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Robbins, Louise S. The dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown : civil rights, censorship, and the American library / by Louise S. Robbins. p. cm. Includes bibligraphical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-8061-3163-2 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Bartlesville Public Library (Bartlesville, Okla.)History20th century. 2. Afro-Americans and librariesOklahomaBartlesvilleHistory20th century. 3. Libraries and communismOklahomaBartlesvilleHistory 20th century. 4. Brown, Ruth Winifred. 5. Civil rights workers Employ mentOklahomaBartlesvilleHistory20th century. 6. Public librarians EmploymentOklahomaBartlesvilleHistory20th century. 7. Public librariesCensorshipOklahomaBartlesvilleHistory20th century. I. Title. Z733.B283R63 2000 020'.896076696dc21 99-38926 CIP Text design by Gail Carter. The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc. Copyright 2000 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Page v 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

Page vii Contents List of Illustrations ix Preface xi List of Abbreviations 2 Introduction 3 1. "America's Ideal Family Center," Its Librarian, and Her Library 10 2. Hastening the Day 45 3. The Many Friends of Miss Brown 76 4. The Cleanup 98 5. "Fighting McCarthyism through Film": The Ruth Brown Episode According to Hollywood 128 6. "Only a Skirmish" 154 Epilogue. Telling the Ruth Brown Story: A Personal Journey 166 Notes 180 Bibliography 211 Index 223

Page ix Illustrations Ruth W. Brown frontispiece

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