With Us, Not for Us: A History of Public Library Services to African Americans in Macon, Georgia, 1881-1970
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
January 2018
Publication Title
Middle Georgia and the Approach of Modernity: Essays on Race, Culture and Daily Life, 1885-1945
First Page
163
Last Page
179
City
Jeffferson, NC
State
published
Recommended Citation
Walker, Shaundra, "With Us, Not for Us: A History of Public Library Services to African Americans in Macon, Georgia, 1881-1970" (2018). Library Faculty Scholarship. 20.
https://kb.gcsu.edu/lib/20
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Comments
By eve of the 20th century, Middle Georgia was a rural region transitioning from the aftermath of the Reconstruction Era into the modern age. This collection of new essays describes the lives of the common people of the day. A grisly mass murder underscored issues of race, class and poverty. African Americans struggled for self-betterment against the rise of Jim Crow. Women striving to overcome gender barriers found a hero in a pioneering Georgian female pilot. The government worked to protect communities from the influenza pandemic of 1918. Fighting boll weevils and declining cotton prices, farmers diversified crops and developed of a national pimento pepper industry.