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The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library. By Louise S. Robbins. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. xvi, 237 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8061-3163-2.)
Ruth W. Brown, a small-town librarian, was dismissed from her job for circulating subversive material in 1954. In point of fact, she was fired for her affiliation with members of the Congress of Racial Equality (coRE) and for her efforts to aid African Americans in their quest for civil rights. Arguing that "political, social, economic and cultural threads became interwoven in a particular time and place, creating a strong web of opposition...