RACE & PLACE Tracie Hall

♦ “the yellow place”

· anti-theft bars over windows

· library placed between police station and jail

· 2 very small reading rooms

· her grandmother would take her to the library – walk long blocks to get to library

♦ “the white cathedral”

· beanbags and soft chairs, inviting atmosphere

· multiracial library staff

· much nicer facility

♦ social and community changes that prompted Hall’s visit to white cathedral

· pro-integration

· post Brown vs. Board of Education

♦ barriers to Hall’s access to white cathedral

· distance

· yellow palace was considered “her” library because it was easily accessible and in her hometown

♦ who was Hall’s audience? I think library workers and anyone working on new library plans for insight on what community members think of libraries and how they can actually divide a community instead of integrating it