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By Louise S. Robbins
In 1950 Ruth W. Brown, librarian on the Bartlesville Public Library, was once brushed aside from her activity after thirty years of exemplary provider, ostensibly simply because she had circulated subversive fabrics. honestly, even though, Brown used to be fired simply because she was once energetic in a bunch affiliated with the Congress of Racial Equality.This episode in a small Oklahoma city virtually a half-century in the past is greater than a hectic neighborhood occasion. It exemplifies the unusual interval of the chilly battle referred to as the McCarthy period, foregrounding those that worked for racial justice, occasionally at nice price, prior to the civil rights move. the elemental problems with the Brown case make it specially pertinent this day, while differences--in race, gender, type, and nationwide origin--are back feared, and as demanding situations to fabrics in library collections back increase. Ruth Brown's tale is helping us comprehend the matrix of private, neighborhood, nation, and nationwide forces which can result in censorship, intolerance, and the suppression of person rights.
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The city was blessed also with a thriving business district centered at Third (later to be named Frank Phillips Boulevard) and Johnstone. On Johnstone were located some of the offices of Phillips Petroleum and the Phillips's First National Bank and the Burlingame Hotel; Third Street from Johnstone east boasted offices of many of the city's doctors, Union Bank, Home Savings and Loan, Eng's popular Chinese restaurant, and Hull's Drug Store, as well as women's clothing stores, shoe shops, and department stores.
22 Although white Bartians believed that the Tulsa race riots had no effect in Bartlesville, the city's close proximity no doubt made Bartlesville's African-American community very much aware of their vulnerability. In fact, newspaper articles from 1921 through 1924 testify to the Klan's presence in Bartlesville as well as in nearby Copan, Ochelata, Ramona, Dewey, and Pawhuska. One photograph in the possession of the Bartlesville History Room depicts a group of hooded Klansmen standing on the running boards of a car participating in a funeral procession, and another depicts an initiation ceremony in which several dozen men were welcomed into the Klan.
The New Deal not only aimed to improve the economic lot of all Americans, it shook up old political and economic relationships in the South, leaving the door open for greater participation by African Americans. The racial liberalism of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt was reflected in the significant number of young black and progressive white professionals appointed to posts in the administration and also in Eleanor Roosevelt's frequent symbolic actions in support of racial equality. On one occasion in 1938, for example, forced by Sheriff "Bull" Connor of Birmingham to move from her seat among black delegates at a meeting of the Southern Conference on Human Welfare, Mrs.