Shelly Millender Jr., a student from Miles College in Birmingham, Alabama, requesting a library card at the Birmingham Public Library.
The library employees (left to right) are Adele Cohn, Martha Miles, Eva Yates, and Carolyn Faye Kendrick (seated). The student was representing the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. This effort by the SCLC was the first organized attempt to desegregate a municipal facility. The library voted...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/14417 |