Louise S. Robbins

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

About the Author

Louise S. Robbins is Associate Professor and Director, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Works by Louise S. Robbins

Tradition and Vision : Library and Information Studies At the University of Wisconsin : A Centennial History (2006) 13 copies

Censorship and the American Library: The American Library Association's Response to Threats to Intellectual Freedom, 193 (1996) 6 copies

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benfergy 7 reviews

The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library by Louise S. Robbins

This book tells of a true story that took place during the 1950s. Ruth Brown, a librarian in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, was fired for supposedly keeping subversive periodicals in the library, but quite possibly this was a cover for her activism in civil rights in the town. What I appreciate about this book is that it really covers so many angles of the story; intellectual freedom, civil rights, the role of women... they all intersect in a peculiar way. Highly recommended.

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jjacob55 6 reviews

The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library by Louise S. Robbins