She is an active member of the Louisville, Kentucky, and. Looking Back: Making "Free Libraries" Legal in 1902.By Jonathan Jeffrey.
An African American, Alexander T. White, was hired to help run the library, but the city's public library administration did not want to hire a non-white person to do the job. The White brothers refused, the mayor threatened them, and the Whites were forced to turn the library over to them. In January 1912, they moved to the newly constructed building now known as the Free Library of Louisville, or FDP. The library still had to comply with city and state library regulations, but was free from any municipal oversight. They took advantage of this by hiring their own janitor. Today, one of the FDP's many purposes is to share the information and stories about its history as a self-supporting community based library. The Free Library of Los Angeles: In the shadow of the World Trade Center. By John L. Smith. A few months after 9/11, one man's dream for a library branch was coming true.
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