Talk:Freedom libraries

Wiki Education assignment: Literacy and Inclusion
— Assignment last updated by Kbelay1 (talk) 22:45, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

New sources and additions
I've added these new sources:


 * Kristin Hunt - Libraries feel attacked - but not like the 'freedom libraries' of 1964(2022)
 * SNCC - Freedom Summer
 * Mike Selby - Freedom's Reading: The Discovery of Two Alabama Freedom Libraries(2013)
 * Frederick W. Heinze - The Freedom Libraries: a wedge in the closed society(1965)
 * Karen Joyce Cooke - Freedom Libraries in the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project: a history(2008)
 * Bruce Watson - Freedom Summer (2010) (print book)

I've added information from these sources that were already included:


 * Mike Selby - Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African Americans in the South (2019) (print book)
 * David Battles - The History of Public Library Access for African Americans in the South (2008) (print book)
 * Ashawnta Jackson - Freedom Libraries and the Fight for Library Equity (2022)

I've left what was already written almost as is, rewording or reorganizing sentences in a couple places as needed. Here are the main additions I've made, organized by section where they appear:


 * intro: mentioned the work of Karen Cook and the timeframe of summer 1964
 * background: libraries may have been technically desegregated but preserved segregation
 * establishment: context of Freedom Summer, context that public libraries were sites of sit-ins, who the COFO was (what organizations), demographic information about volunteers, the Selma Free Library, what kinds of buildings freedom libraries were in, what other services they offered
 * challenges: lack of clarity around COFO organizational structure, lack of funding and volunteer experience, details about Vicksburg bombing, landlords' reluctance to rent to freedom libraries
 * impact: freedom libraries raising awareness, significant impact in short time period

--SmallChartreuseCat (talk) 14:37, 24 February 2023 (UTC)