id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15578 Jones, Plummer Alston Graham, Patterson Toby. A Right to Read: Segregation and Civil Rights in Alabama’s Public Libraries, 1900–1965. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: Univ. of Alabama Pr., 2002. 191p. $37.50 (ISBN 0817311440). LC 2001-5918. 2003-01-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 1876 158 45 In the December 1960 issue of Library Jour- nal, newly appointed editor Eric Moon wrote his infamous editorial, “The Silent Subject,” in which he complained that the library profession, specifically the ALA, had generally ignored the racial segrega- tion of public libraries in the South. Reed, director of the Public Library Service Division of Alabama’s state li- brary agency, fought not only for the in- tegration of Alabama’s public libraries, but also for freedom of speech in the no- torious censorship case involving Garth Williams’s children’s book, The Rabbits’ Wedding, about a black male rabbit and a white female rabbit marrying and living happily ever after. cache/crl-15578.pdf txt/crl-15578.txt