Liberty & literacy : Sunday schools and reading for African-American females in New York City, 1799-1826 / Marilyn H. Pettit -- The founding & prevalence of African-American social libraries & historical societies, 1828-1918: gatekeepers of early Black history, collections, & literature / Rosie L. Albritton -- Private dominance in black academic libraries, 1916-1938 / James E. Hooper -- A history of Holland Public Library, Wichita Falls, Texas, 1934-1968 / Andrea L. Williams -- The ugly side of librarianship: segregation in library services from 1900 to 1950 / Klaus Musmann -- From segregation to integration: library services for Blacks in South Carolina, 1923-1962 / Dan Lee -- Reading for liberation : the role of libraries in the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Project / Donald G. Davis, Jr. & Cheryl Knott Malone --
Racial integration at the University of Houston: a personal perspective I. Edward G. Holley ; II. Charles Churchwell -- Black women, civil rights, & libraries / Jessie Carney Smith -- Unique gatekeepers of Black culture: three Black librarians as book publishers / Donald Franklin Joyce -- ACRL's historically Black college & universities libraries projects, 1972-1994 / Casper L. Jordan ; Beverly P. Lynch -- Liberating & empowering minds: the African/Caribbean Canadian woman librarian & the development of the West Indian/Black heritage collection of the North York Public Library, 1980-1994 / Norman G. Kester -- Uprooting Black heritage: lessons from an African-American collection at auction / Detine L. Bowers -- Civil rights, libraries, & African-American librarianship, 1954-1994: a bibliographic essay / Edward A. Goedeken