A Right to Read

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A Right to Read is written by Patterson Toby Graham and published by University of Alabama Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0817311440 (ISBN 10) and 9780817311445 (ISBN 13).

A Right to Read is the first book to examine public library segregation from its origins in the late 19th century through its end during the tumultuous years of the 1960s civil rights movement. Graham focuses on Alabama, where African Americans, denied access to white libraries, worked to establish and maintain their own "Negro branches." These libraries - separate but never equal - were always underfunded and inadequately prepared to meet the needs of their constituencies."--BOOK JACKET.