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RE: LHRT Reads | Join us next Thursday

Posted By Wayne Wiegand Mar 13, 2024 09:51 PM
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Reminder to all. The events Brenda described occurred three months after ALA passed the first version of its Library Bill of Rights. Wayne

RE: Virginia Lacy Jones-American Library Association Honorary Membership - 1976

Posted By Wayne Wiegand Feb 22, 2024 09:28 PM
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As I researched and wrote my next book, "In Silence or Indifference: Racism and Jim Crow Segregated Public School Libraries" (September, 2024), I came across scores of racist obstacles VLJ had to overcome within the library profession. She was a very impressive individual.

ALA Executive Board August 18 Statement re: safeguarding intellectual freedom and social justice

Posted By Wayne Wiegand Aug 23, 2021 03:45 PM
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I was very pleased to see the American Library Association's June 26, 2020, statement that "accepts and acknowledges its role in upholding unjust systems of racism and discrimination against Black, Indigenous, and People of Color," but as I've said in at least one article I've published since that resolution ...