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There's a great deal of anxiety, nuance, and complexity in the history of the public library movement, alongside the evangelism of heroic men and women (who deserve much more than parenthetic reference), and which offers deeper lessons regarding pitfalls and perils attending the incorporation of movements into institutions. Look to the story of Chartist reading rooms in the 1840s and 50s in England, which put pressure on official culture to sanction reading access for the people; look to the story of libraries in the Jim Crow South, how they went along--and how resistance operated.

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".. private, member’s only organizations.." Too many apostrophes. Adding apostrophe s usually does not make a noun plural. It actually turns into a contraction: "... member is..."

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"...private, member’s only organizations..." Too many apostrophes! Just adding apostrophe S to a noun does not automatically make it plural. In fact, it may actually turn it into a contraction. "...member's..." equals "...member is..."

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