Library Service in Black and White Quotes

“We know our own people; we know each teacher by name; we know the minister, the doctor, the lawyer, the merchant and most of the others who frequent our libraries. Those of another race cannot know our wants, our habits, our likes and our dislikes as we do...However much they might try it would be impossible for them to give us the service that one of our own race can give in an atmosphere where service and freedom are the predominant elements; and this is surely the condition in the colored branches in Louisville.”
― Annie L. McPheeters, Library Service in Black and White: Some Personal Recollections, 1921-1980

“Third, there was little or no opportunity for professional meetings and contact within the system since the local, state, and regional associations were not open to them for visitation or membership. Fourth, before the opening of the Hampton Institute School of Library Service in 1925, professional library school training for blacks had to be obtained outside the region.”
― Annie L. McPheeters, Library Service in Black and White: Some Personal Recollections, 1921-1980

“That is to say, 'forget the color line, consider a reader a reader, and cut out other such nonsense.”
― Annie L. McPheeters, Library Service in Black and White: Some Personal Recollections, 1921-1980