A Reading Room of Their Own: Library Services for African Americans in Oklahoma, 1907-1946 Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title A Reading Room of Their Own: Library Services for African Americans in Oklahoma, 1907-1946
  • Serial Title Chronicles of Oklahoma

Creator

  • Author: Cassity, R. O. Joe, Jr.
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Editor: Everett, Dianna
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Editor: Wilson, Linda D.
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Assistant Editor
  • Artist: Siemens, William E.
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Graphic Artist
  • Printer: University of Oklahoma Printing Services
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

  • Name: Oklahoma Historical Society
    Place of Publication: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Date

  • Creation: 2006-23

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Article discussing the struggles African American Oklahomans faced for access to public library services. The first forty years of statehood brought a few successes, and by mid-century only eleven communities provided a public library facility for the state's black citizens.
  • Physical Description: 14 p. : ill.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Oklahoma -- History
  • Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms: Periodicals
  • Keyword: histories
  • Keyword: public libraries
  • Keyword: public services
  • Keyword: African Americans
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Libraries and Black people

Coverage

  • Coverage Date: 1896~/1951
  • Place Name: United States - Oklahoma
  • Place Name: United States - Oklahoma - Logan County - Guthrie
  • Place Name: United States - Oklahoma - Okmulgee County - Okmulgee
  • Place Name: United States - Oklahoma - Muskogee County - Muskogee
  • Place Name: United States - Oklahoma - Oklahoma County - Oklahoma City
  • Place Name: United States - Oklahoma - Tulsa County - Tulsa

Source

  • Journal: Chronicles of Oklahoma, 84(3), Oklahoma Historical Society, 2006, pp. 308-321

Citation

  • Publication Title: Chronicles of Oklahoma
  • Volume: 84
  • Issue: 3
  • Page Start: 308
  • Page End: 321

Relation

  • Is Part Of: Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 84, Number 3, Fall 2006, ark:/67531/metadc1835631

Collection

  • Name: The Chronicles of Oklahoma
    Code: CRNOK

Institution

  • Name: Oklahoma Historical Society
    Code: OKHS

Rights

  • Rights Access: public
  • Rights License: copyright
  • Rights Holder: Oklahoma Historical Society

Resource Type

  • Article

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc2006428

Note

  • Display Note: Abstract: Despite Jim Crow Laws and a Supreme court-mandated doctrine of "separate but equal," African American Oklahomans struggled for access to public library services. The first forty years of statehood brought a few successes, and by mid-century only eleven communities provided a public library facility for the state's black citizens.
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