Jessamyn on Nostr: Notably, in that article the ALA says "The last time that state chapters withdrew ...
Notably, in that article the ALA says "The last time that state chapters withdrew from the ALA...was during the Jim Crow era after [ALA] said it would not host events in segregated states." That's not quite true. The larger truth is more complex & also includes ALA being slow to act and uncertain in how to act well.
I forgot I had written up a short history here. Link at the top of the page goes to sources.
https://www.librarian.net/talks/whiteness/whiteness/Worth understanding how to not be doomed to repeat history.
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