Notably, in that article the ALA says "The last time that state chapters withdrew from the ALA...was during the Jim Crow era after [ALA] said it would not host events in segregated states." That's not quite true. The larger truth is more complex & also includes ALA being slow to act and uncertain in how to act well.
I forgot I had written up a short history here. Link at the top of the page goes to sources.
https://www.librarian.net/talks/whiteness/whiteness/
Worth understanding how to not be doomed to repeat history.
Jessamyn /
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