x dismiss this message
Did you know you can edit this page?
-
Sign Into Shelfari
-
Choose something to edit
-
Save your contributions
see page history
Description edit
In 1950 Ruth W. Brown, librarian at the Bartlesville Public Library, was dismissed from her job after thirty years of exemplary service, ostensibly because she had circulated subversive materials. In truth, however, Brown was fired because she was active in a group affiliated with the Congress... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
First Sentence edit
Even at a distance of nearly half a century many residents of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, still feel strongly about Ruth W. Brown, the single, middle-aged public librarian who lost her job of thirty years in 1950 amid charges that she circulated communist and subversive materials-the Nation, the New Republic, and Soviet Russia Today.
Table of Contents edit
List of Illustrations
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. "America's Ideal Family Center," Its Librarian, and Her Library
2. Hastening the Day
3. The Many Friends of Miss Brown
4. The Cleanup
5. "Fighting McCarthyism through Film": The Ruth Brown Episode According to Hollywood
6. "Only a Skirmish"
Epilogue. Telling the Ruth Brown Story: A Personal Journey
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- Louise S. Robbins (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0806131632
Page Count: 237
Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0806131632
Page Count: 237
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Z733.B283R63
- Dewey: 973
Subjects edit
Popular Tags
Books Cited by This Book edit
Toward Better Race RelationsDothory. ; Hiller, Margaret, Young Women's Christian Associations. Sabiston- The Southern Negro and the Public LibraryEliza Atkins Gleason
- Behind the Lace Curtains of the YWCAJoseph P Kamp
- Periodicals for Small and Medium-Sized Libraries
- I ConfessBenjamin Gitlow
- Red ChannelsRed Channels
- Soviet Image of the United StatesFrederick Barghoorn
- The Public LibrarianAlice Isabel Bryan
- Blacks in White CollegesGeorge Lynn Cross
- The Truman Doctrine and the Origins of McCarthyismRichard M Freeland
- Libraries of the SouthTommie Dora Barker
- The Flight from ReasonDavid K. Berninghausen
- The Public Library in the Political ProcessOliver Garceau
- Clios Craft
- The Specter
- Documents of LifeKenneth Plummer
- Oklahoma PoliticsJames Scales
- A History of Public Library Services to Negroes in the South, 1900-1955Ann Allen Shockley
- History of Washington County and Surrounding AreaMargaret Withers Teague
- A Pictorial History of BartlesvilleJoanne Riney Bennett
- Bartlesville: Remembrances of Times Past, Reflections of Today
- The geography of reading: A study of the distribution and status of libraries in the United StatesLOUIS R. WILSON
- County Library Service in the SouthLouis R. and Wight, Edward A. Wilson
We’re hiding the errata, movie connections, books that influenced this book, books influenced by this book and books that cite this book sections. If you would like to add content to them, you must first make them visible.
