installation view; the free library and other histories
installation view; the free library and other histories
installation view; the free library and other histories
installation view; the free library and other histories
documents from the FBI Counterintelligence Visits to Libraries Hearings—redacted FBI files disclose surveillance of libraries, the Library Awareness Program; FOIA request submitted by National Security Archive; released November, 1989.
documents from the FBI Counterintelligence Visits to Libraries Hearings—redacted FBI files disclose surveillance of libraries, the Library Awareness Program; FOIA request submitted by National Security Archive; released November, 1989.
documents from the FBI Counterintelligence Visits to Libraries Hearings—redacted FBI files disclose surveillance of libraries, the Library Awareness Program; FOIA request submitted by National Security Archive; released November, 1989.
installation view; the free library and other histories
pages from the Barney Rosset—Grove Press FBI files; FOIA request submitted by Robert Delaware, Muckrock, March 11, 2012.
The Barney Rosset—Grove Press FBI files and archive photos: the “Howl” trial and Jake Ehrlich, defense attorney.
installation view; the free library and other histories
front on floor: the free library and other histories, tabloid;
photo in display case: The Tougaloo Nine,1961. Photo: AP/Courtesy of Tougaloo College Archives.
photo in display case: The Tougaloo Nine, left to right, Joseph Jackson, Jr., Geraldine Edwards, James “Sammy” Bradford, Evelyn Pierce, Albert Lassiter, Ethel Sawyer, Meredith Anding, Janice Jackson and Alfred Cook. 1961. Photo: AP/Courtesy of Tougaloo College Archives.
photo in display case: The Tougaloo Nine, left to right, Joseph Jackson, Jr., Geraldine Edwards, James “Sammy” Bradford, Evelyn Pierce, Albert Lassiter, Ethel Sawyer, Meredith Anding, Janice Jackson and Alfred Cook. 1961. Photo: AP/Courtesy of Tougaloo College Archives.
installation view; the free library and other histories
photo in display case: Janice Jackson, Evelyn Pierce, and Ethel Sawyer of the Tougaloo Nine, under arrest for the crime of reading in a 'white only' library. Jackson, Mississippi. March 27, 1961. Photo: uncredited.
text in lightbox: 'The Opening of the Library', W.E.B. DuBois, published in the Atlanta Independent on April 3, 1902.
text in lightbox: 'The Opening of the Library', W.E.B. DuBois, published in the Atlanta Independent on April 3, 1902.
installation view; the free library and other histories
shredded—redacted FBI files, the Library Awareness Program; FOIA request submitted by National Security Archive; released November, 1989.
shredded—redacted FBI files, the Library Awareness Program; FOIA request submitted by National Security Archive; released November, 1989.
shredded—redacted FBI files, the Library Awareness Program; FOIA request submitted by National Security Archive; released November, 1989.
installation view; the free library and other histories
installation view; the free library and other histories
the free library and other histories, 20 page b&w tabloid, edition of 2,000,
distributed for free to the public at various locations
installation view; the free library and other histories
installation view; the free library and other histories
‘excerpts from the free library’ 2018; video
video still from interview with Geraldine Hollis “Tougaloo Nine” 2012
'banned books' anthologies
literature suppressed on political grounds, religious grounds, sexual grounds and social grounds
