Fight for the right to read : Samuel Wilbert Tucker and the 1939 Sit-Down Strike for library reading equality
Publication Information
Berkeley, CA : Creston Books, [2025]
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Audience
2-8.
Summary
"Banning people from libraries is even worse than banning books! Decades before the Civil Rights Movement, Samuel Wilbert Tucker, a Black lawyer in Virginia, organized a peaceful read-in at the local public library, which was segregated. He wanted to affirm the right of everyone to use the library. Thanks to efforts like his, we can all sit at a table, any table, pick up a book, any book, and read."--Back cover.
Subjects
- Lawyers > Virginia > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Civil rights workers > Virginia > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Segregation > Virginia > Alexandria > History > Juvenile literature.
- Public libraries > Virginia > Alexandria > Juvenile literature.
- Libraries and Black people > Virginia > Alexandria > Juvenile literature.
- African Americans and libraries > Virginia > Alexandria > Juvenile literature.
- Intellectual freedom > Juvenile literature.
- Freedom of information > Juvenile literature.
- Civil rights demonstrations > Virginia > Alexandria > Juvenile literature.
- Civil rights movements > Virginia > Alexandria > Juvenile literature.
- Tucker, Samuel Wilbert, 1913-1990 > Juvenile literature.