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September 2020 Published by Alabama Public Library Service Reading List, Eddins Asked Her If She Personally a Tale of Two Rabbits Believed in Racial Integration Vol. 4, No. 7 September 2020 Published by Alabama Public Library Service reading list, Eddins asked her if she personally A tale of two rabbits believed in racial integration. Reed refused to by Gail Sheldon answer his question by saying, “This has nothing APLS Library Consultant, Youth Services to do with running the library service.” After many stressful months, Reed officially As most of you know, I’m not an Alabama resigned her position as APLS director on Jan. native. Despite living in this state for more than 9, 1960 to accept a library consultant position in half of my life and working in the library field Washington, D.C. However, the tumult between since 2006, I recently found out about an incident Eddins and Reed had long been fodder for local from APLS’ past. With Banned Books Week newspapers. This noise was even spilling into taking place Sept. 27 – Oct. 3, I’m sharing this the national news. interesting bit of history with you now. The Birmingham Post-Herald reached out In 1959, Alabama Public Library Service to author and illustrator Garth Williams for Director Emily Wheelock Reed faced intense comment on the controversy. Williams said scrutiny from state lawmakers after she his book, “was written for children from two to defended a recently published children’s book five who will understand it perfectly. It was not some legislators wanted banned. The White written for adults who will not understand it is Citizens’ Council and Alabama State Senator This children’s book caused a significant only about a soft furry love and has no hidden E. O. Eddins led a segregationist crusade against controversy in Alabama on the topic of message of hate.” In an article published by the The Rabbits’ Wedding by Garth Williams for race in the late 1950s and early 1960s Los Angeles Evening Mirror News, Williams also illustrations that depicted the marriage of a white said, “I was completely unaware that animals and could keep their copies on the shelf if they rabbit to a black rabbit. Eddins accused the book with white fur, such as white polar bears and chose to do so. of blatantly promoting racial integration and white dogs and white rabbits, were considered interracial marriage as propaganda to children. This action incensed Eddins, and he blood relations of white beings. I was only aware continued to challenge Reed. He threatened to that a white horse next to a black horse looks Due to the outcry, Reed reviewed the book halt the approval of the APLS budget, brought very picturesque.” and found its material acceptable. She defended her before the state legislature for questioning, The Rabbits’ Wedding against an outright When Reed died in 2000 at the age of 89, and demanded her resignation. ban and saw it her ethical duty as a librarian her New York Times obituary stated, “The to provide balanced information on racial Through all this, Reed held her ground. The confrontation came as blacks were fighting to be integration if viewed through such a lens. With Rabbits’ Wedding was available by request allowed in public libraries throughout the South Eddins personally calling for it to be banned, (he from APLS. Reed doubled down by distributing and a segregationist in Florida was demanding in fact suggested The Rabbits’ Wedding and other a recommended reading list from the American that ‘’The Three Little Pigs’’ be removed from books should be burned) Reed compromised by Library Association (ALA) that included Martin library shelves because the pigs were depicted placing the book on special reserve and available Luther King, Jr.’s Stride Toward Freedom: The to those interested upon request. Alabama’s Montgomery Story, which further angered See Rabbits public libraries were not affected by this status segregationists. After Reed distributed the continued on next page Emily Wheelock Reed Rabbits continued from previous page in different colors. Such disputes, mirroring the struggle for access to schools and public libraries, were widely covered in the press…[The Rabbits’ Wedding] was attacked by The Montgomery Home News, a publication of the Montgomery, Ala., chapter of the White Citizens Council, on the ground that it promoted racial integration. Though the ALA largely remained silent on the issue during the time of the controversy, Miss Reed was posthumously honored by the ALA as a trailblazer in protecting intellectual freedom when she received the Freedom to Read Foundation Scroll of Honor award. Playwright Kenneth Jones wrote Alabama Story in 2013 after being inspired by Reed’s obituary in the New York Times. The play was set to open in March at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, but was unfortunately canceled due to health and safety concerns. The times certainly have changed, but have they really? The Rabbits’ Wedding was never intended as social commentary. Williams himself described his book as an inadvertent artistic decision that backfired. If it were first published now, the book would never cause an uproar. Today, we have books often deemed controversial that weren’t written as happy little accidents. And Tango Makes Three. My Princess Boy. The Hate U Give. Reed’s fight from 60 years ago still isn’t over. It’s our duty as librarians to provide alternative viewpoints and give our patrons an opportunity to experience books with characters they can personally identify with and the people they may encounter. Combating censorship is vital. This ethical obligation existed long before Reed and will undoubtedly continue to exist long into the future. Of course, what’s considered controversial will change with the times, and we need to be vigilant to keep up with these changes. It’s not good enough to simply refuse book bans. As librarians, we should actively seek out and include books oft challenged by others. A May 23, 1959 article on page 3 of The Orlando Sentinel describes the controversy YAKETY YAK 2 September 2020 Reviews by Cassandra Brindle Book Reviews of Picture, Juvenile, and Young Adult Fiction and Non-Fiction Punching the Air the right answer by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam The teacher only asks questions to hear Amal Shahid sits in a courtroom and the right answer...’ watches. Don’t talk, don’t speak, they don’t want to listen. The adults are handling it, I could get into everything that’s going justice will be served. You’re innocent. The on right now. I could write about the quality system works. But the people who testify of this book and the story it tells. But really, don’t know him. They paint a 2D caricature Amal speaks for himself. colored in by listeners’ perceptions. There’s a white boy in a hospital, not awake, not ‘...The bookshelves here are not walls aware, and he had such a bright future They’re closed windows ahead of him. He was good. Amal’s troubled; and all I have to do he’s aggressive, has problems. Lock him up is pull out one book and save society from his existence. Justice to make these windows must be served because the system works. wide open.’ Amal Shahid is in a juvenile detention This was written in reference to the small facility. They act like he’s in school when library in the juvenile detention facility. A they’re being ‘nice’ - sit down, shut up, you’re before winning their freedom. Told from large theme throughout the book is how here to listen and learn. We saw you on TV; Amal’s point of view, this book is written Amal is boxed in — both tangibly — but also we know what you did. The lessons they’re almost entirely in poetry (barring a couple figuratively by what people think of him and teaching aren’t ones you use to get a job. of letters he receives). I could describe it, his limitations in what he can safely do and but I’ll share a couple of selections instead. say. That moment right there offers of my Amal’s got his art, his words, and the favorite descriptions of what a library is. name his mom gave him. Amal means hope, ‘...Their words and what they thought Punching the Air is a window into a world but hope is hard to keep alive without a to be their truth and experience most of us are lucky to have were like a scalpel place for it to grow. never suffered. It’s also a window I feel every library would be well served to include on shaping me into Punching the Air is a book written by the monster their shelves. It was an incredible read. best-selling author Ibi Zoboi and prison they want me to be...’ reform activist Yusef Salaam. For those who Recommended for: Really anyone, but and, don’t recognize his name, Yusef Salaam is specifically fans of realistic fiction or poetry. also a member of the Exonerated (Central ‘...That school teaches you what to think Park) Five, a small group of teens falsely not how to think and nobody raises Things to watch out for: There’s convicted of a crime and served years their hands except to give violence and swearing. September 2020 3 YAKETY YAK Book Reviews (continued) the male/female double standard, toxic Shine environments/situations, and similar items. by Jessica Jung The book doesn’t discuss them for the ‘Princess Rachel’. A nickname which most part, but showcases them through has followed Rachel Kim throughout most Rachel’s eyes. Admittedly, I was impressed of her time at DB Entertainment’s trainee with several ‘Jason’ moments in the story. It school for potential future K-pop stars.
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