In The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South , Wayne and Shirley Wiegand use an array of primary sources to tell the comprehensive history of the integration of Public Libraries in the region.
The history of that process began before the Supreme Court\'s Brown.
Like other efforts to integrate civic institutions in the 1950s and 1960s, it was the persistence of Local Activism that won the battle to integrate these institutions and genuinely make them free to all citizens.
In The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South , Wayne and Shirley Wiegand use an array of primary sources to tell the comprehensive history of the integration of Public Libraries in the region