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1960-11-17 Correspondence

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Wallis, C. Lamar

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Letter from Library Director Lamar Wallis to Mayor Loeb and City Commissioners: "Gentlemen: At its regular meeting today the Memphis Public Library Board of Directors instructed me to ask the City Commission to meet with the Library Board on Monday, November 21, at 11 a.m. in the Cossitt Library auditorium at 33 South Front. -- The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the question of restroom facilities in the various public library buildings. The negro plaintiff in our current lawsuit has refused to withdraw his suit on the basis that the Library Board has not desegregated all of its facilities, namely the toilets. The Library Board is complying with the City building code by maintaining separate toilet facilities for white and colored and would like to have the City Commission's feeling about this matter. Judge Miller has granted a thirty day period for the Library Board to answer the plaintiff. -- Since we have completely desegregated all library services and facilities except the restrooms, there will be no need to discuss any other matters except this one point, and therefore the meeting should not take long. Sincerely yours, C. Lamar Wallis, Director"
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Keywords

  1. Civil Rights
  2. Correspondence
  3. Integrating The Libraries
  4. Libraries
  5. Loeb, Henry
  6. Segregation
  7. Wallis, C. Lamar

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