Public in Name Only
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African American legal history
African American library history
African American protest history
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Alexandria
Alexandria Library
Alexandria Library sit-in
Alexandria public library history
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Black access to public libraries
Black attorneys in the civil rights movement
Black lawyers fighting segregation
Black librarians
Black resistance to segregation
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civil disobedience
Civil disobedience and the law
Civil rights cases before Brown v. Board
Civil rights law and public spaces
Civil rights leaders in Alexandria
Civil rights pioneers in Virginia
Civil rights protests in the 1930s
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discrimination
Early civil rights movements
Early sit-in movements
Educational Equity
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Era of Jim Crow
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Grassroots activism
History of public library access
Jim Crow
Jim Crow laws and libraries
Language_English
Legal battles against segregation
Libraries and racial discrimination
Library Bill of Rights
Library history and civil rights
Library protests in American history
Library segregation history
Microhistory
NAACP
NAACP legal cases in Virginia
Nonviolent resistance in America
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Public library desegregation cases
public protest
Samuel Tucker
Segregation
Segregation in American libraries
Sit-in
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Supreme Court cases on segregation
The fight for equal library access
The role of attorneys in desegregation
Virginia
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- ISBN 9781625346582
- Format: Hardback
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 26 Aug 2022
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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When Alexandria, Virginia's first public library was constructed just a few blocks from his home, Samuel Wilbert Tucker, a young, Black attorney, was appalled to learn that he could not use the library because of his race. Inspired by the legal successes of the NAACP in discrimination cases, he organized a grassroots protest to desegregate the library that his tax dollars supported.
Public in Name Only tells the important, but largely forgotten, story of Tucker and a group of Black citizens who agitated for change in the terms and conditions of their lives. Employing the combined strategies of direct-action public protest, nonviolent civil disobedience, and municipal litigation, Tucker's initiative dovetailed with the national priorities and tactics of larger civil rights organizations. While Tucker's campaign did not end with the desegregation of the Alexandria Library, but instead resulted in the creation of a "separate-and-unequal" Jim Crow Black branch, the sit-in demonstration represents a momentous early struggle for racial equity waged through civil rights activism.
