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  • description: Official website: https://to.pbs.org/IL_2024 | #IndieLensPBS Free For All: The Public Library tells the story of the quiet revolutionaries who made a simple idea happen. From the pioneering women behind the “Free Library Movement” to today's librarians who service the public despite working in a contentious age of closures and book bans, meet those who created a civic institution where everything is free and the doors are open to all. Free for All: The Public Library | Independent Lens This program is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station: https://www.pbs.org/donate Subscribe to the PBS channel for more clips: https://www.youtube.com/PBS/ Enjoy full episodes of your favorite PBS shows anytime, anywhere with the free PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2QbtzhR FOLLOW PBS: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PBS/ X: https://twitter.com/PBS/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/PBS/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pbs Threads: https://www.threads.net/@pbs FOLLOW INDEPENDENT LENS: Independent Lens: https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/independentlens Threads: https://www.threads.net/@independentlens X: https://twitter.com/IndependentLens Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/independenlens YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnDUknWztWaLs7motsqGwPg?sub_confirmation=1 #library #publiclibrary #history #documentary Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:18 Free for All 06:50 Libraries Across the Country 08:51 The First Public Library in America 11:21 Benjamin Franklin’s Public Works 12:35 Who Was Excluded from Public Libraries? 15:32 The Women of The Free Library Movement 20:30 Lutie Sterns: The Traveling Library 22:32 The Best Librarian in Wisconsin 26:29 Kids Love the Library 29:04 Immigrants & Urban Libraries 34:47 Andrew Carnegie: Greed & Wealth 39:31 Books for Immigrant Neighborhoods 41:40 The Women’s Club Movement 45:32 The Black Bookmobile 47:31 Black Librarian: Annie McFeeders 48:14 Segregation in Libraries 49:09 Harlem Renaissance & Arturo “Arthur” Schomburg 52:11 James Baldwin Talks About Books 53:48 Faith Cabin Libraries 56:09 Wartime Censorship & Book Burning 1:01:52 Integrating Public Libraries 1:05:46 The Tax Revolt & Public Funding 1:07:48 Providing Public Services 1:11:30 Closing Library Branches 1:13:39 Challenging Book Bans 1:16:19 The New Generation of the American Public Library 1:22:57 Credits ABOUT INDEPENDENT LENS @independentlens is an Emmy® Award-winning PBS documentary series. With founding executive producer Lois Vossen, the series has been honored with 10 Academy Award nominations and features documentaries united by the creative freedom, artistic achievement, and unflinching visions of independent filmmakers. Presented by ITVS, INDEPENDENT LENS is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Acton Family Giving, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, Park Foundation, Wyncote Foundation, and National Endowment for the Arts.
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