The American Library Association and its Role in the Lynching at Emporia State
The American Library Association and its Role in the Lynching at Emporia State
In 2015 the American Library Association accredited the library school at Emporia State University despite a raging controversy regarding a hate crime directed at a Black professor and his wife. In the end, the professor and his wife won a Title VII Retaliation lawsuit against ESU in federal court pro se, a first for an unrepresented litigant in the history of the US. However, the ALA continues to refuse to even say their names.
This book calls out the duplicity and hypocrisy of the professional organization which proclaims to reject its racist past and stand with those who are marginalized and silenced. Every librarian in America needs to read this book. It's small but packed with eye opening facts that lays bare the true character of the ALA.