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

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In 1950 Ruth W. Brown, librarian at the Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Public Library, was once summarily dismissed from her job after thirty years of exemplary service, ostensibly because she had circulated subversive materials. In fact, on the other hand, Brown was once fired because she had grow to be active in promoting racial equality and had helped form a group affiliated with the Congress of Racial Equality.

Louise S. Robbins tells the story of the political, social, economic, and cultural threads that became interwoven in a particular time and place, creating a strong web of opposition. This combination of forces ensnared Ruth Brown and her colleagues-for the most part women and African Americans-who championed the reason for racial equality.

This episode in a small Oklahoma town almost a half-century ago is more than a disturbing local event. It exemplifies the McCarthy era, foregrounding those who labored for racial justice, on occasion at great cost, before the civil rights movement. As well as, it reveals a masking of concerns that led even Brown’s allies to difficult to understand the reason for racial integration for which she fought. Relevant today, Ruth Brown’s story helps us keep in mind the matrix of personal, community, state, and national forces that can result in censorship, intolerance, and the suppression of individual rights.

 


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