@article{78206,
  author = {Steven A. Knowlton},
  title = {The {\textquoteright}Negro Branch{\textquoteright} Library in Memphis: A Case Study of Public Services in a Segregated Southern City},
  abstract = { <p>
	Memphis was a pioneer among southern cities in providing segregated~library services to African Americans in 1903. However, those services were unequal to<br>services offered to white citizens, and subject to political forces aimed at perpetuating~white supremacy. By the 1930s African Americans had become a crucial voting bloc that~supported the political machine of {\textquotedblleft}Boss{\textquotedblright} Crump, who dominated city government~between 1927 and 1954. Improved library service was one of many civic amenities that~were provided in African American ommunities as part of an unstated bargain between~the Crump machine and African American voters of Memphis. The library became one~of many community-building institutions that helped a generation of African American<br>leaders in Memphis prepare for the struggles of the civil rights movement in the 1950s~and 1960s.
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 },
  year = {2017},
  journal = {Libraries: Culture, History, and Society},
  volume = {1},
  pages = {23-45},
  month = {03/2017},
  language = {eng},
}