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      Letter to American Library Association bulletin editor Lucile Deaderick

      Published August 7, 2020 at 760 × 570 in CPL Librarian Charlemae Hill Rollins Championed African Americans in Children’s Literature.
      Negro librarians from the North, East, and West will be denied the stimulus of these important contacts if ALA meetings are held in cities where they cannot attend all meetings - worse still will be the plight of southern Negro librarians who are already cut off from most of the cultural and enriching experiences shared by their white colleagues. My son writes me that he is knee-deep in French mud and has been since D-Day. My brother is manning a tank in the front lines in Germany. I wonder if they are fighting for Democracy, or are they blindly fighting for Miss Warren's "unattainable principles." Negro members of organizations meeting at the Drake Hotel in Chicago and hotels in other more enlightened cities not only eat in these hotels, but sleep there as well, depending on the policy of the organization meeting at the hotel. In addition to this, there is a Civil Rights law in the State of Illinois which can be enforced, if necessary. I would like to ask this question, "Is there any reason for me or any other Negro librarian to continue membership in the ALA of the future."

      Source: Charlemae Hill Rollins Papers.

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