Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Ruth Brown to be honored

LISNews scooped us on this story from Bartlesville, where the Bartlesville Women's Network is raising funds to honor Ruth Brown. Brown was a librarian who was fired during the McCarthy era for loaning books to black patrons, defying the library's Jim Crow policy.

Bonus: It doesn't look like it's had a DVD or VHS release, but Bette Davis played a character based on Ruth Brown in the 1956 film Storm Center.
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1 comment:

Adri said...

Actually Karl -- we scooped them back on Feb 17
http://librarystories.blogspot.com/2006_02_01_librarystories_archive.html#114018530351692794

:)

3/07/2006 8:12 PM

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