“When the sit-in movement started in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960 black people of nearby Danville had also been stirred to sit-in. There main focus then was on desegregating the ‘public’ library. As everywhere in the South, black people were denied the use of the town’s main library and assigned (in Danville, but not in all Southern towns) a miserable branch library with a few torn books. The Danville Library fought desegregation to the death, for it was not just another library, but a Confederate Memorial sacred to the white folks, the site of the last full cabinet meeting of the Confederacy before General Lee announced his surrender. Eventually faced with a court order to desegregate, the library chose instead to close from September to November, 1960, and reopen desegregated- but without chairs, and with the cost of a library card raised to $2.50 a year.” -From, “The Makings Of Black Revolutionaries” By: James Forman

[SIDEBAR; The above picture is Albany, Georgia. 1992]