Draft:Mack Haygood Public Library
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Organization
The Parent Teacher Association of segregated Hooper-Renwick School organized the Mack Haygood Public Library on May 30, 1958.[1] This was a segregated library for the Black residents of Gwinnett and surrounding counties, who were not allowed into Gwinnett's two white-only public libraries. Mrs. Fannie Lou Paxton served as Librarian.[2]
The origin of the name of the library is unclear, but there were two Black men (father and son) living in Lawrenceville, Georgia, at this time.[3]
Closure
The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 greatly impacted the Mack Haygood Public Library. The Gwinnett County Library Board of Trustees, then part of the Gwinnett-Forsyth Region Libary system, integrated their white only libraries in the summer of 1965. At first, the Mack Haygood branch remained open, allowing the white libraries being desegregated in policy but not practice.[1]
Beginning in the summer of 1964 the library was repeatedly vandalized, and the Board could not afford to continually pay for repairs. The Gwinnett County Library Board of Trustees voted to close the Mack Haygood Branch on March 1, 1967. As an alternative to segregated branches, the County's bus mobile service shifted to focus on serving the Black community.[1]
References
- ^ a b c LeRoux, Marcia H (March 1968). "The History and Development of the Lanier Lake Regional Library". A Master's Paper Prepared for Librarianship 397, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.: 4-5.
- ^ Flanigan, J C (1959). History of Gwinnett County, Georgia. Vol II. Gwinnett County: Gwinnett Historical Society, Inc. p. 181.
- ^ "National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: Lawrenceville, Gwinnett, Georgia; Roll: 2839; Page: 10, 16; Enumeration District: 67-11"