Memories of Public Libraries in Oral Histories of Accomplished Black Professionals: Methods of Finding the Library in the Life of the User.

I mined 503 oral histories of prominent Black Americans for their memories of public libraries in the twentieth-century United States. I then analyzed testimonies to produce a "prosopography of sentiment": aggregated data demonstrating how members of this demographic group in general felt about libr...

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Published in:	Information & Culture Vol. 60; no. 2; pp. 109 - 145
Main Author:	Knowlton, Steven A.
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Texas Press 2025
Subjects:	Public libraries Black people Oral history Reading Maturation (Psychology) 20th century United States history Segregation Black history
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