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Community Partnership: Get a Library Card!
Savery Library has partnered with the public libraries in Talladega County to share resources and expand services. With a current student ID, students can now get cards at the public libraries in Childersburg, Lincoln, Munford, Talladega, and Sylacauga. This will allow access to these libraries' resources, including books and online databases, to supplement the resources offered at Savery. Please take advantage of it.
Visit:
Talladega Armstrong-Osborne Public Library
B.B. Comer Memorial Library (Sylacauga)
Rainwater Memorial Library (Childersburg)
Students can use Talladega College's address as their home address to be eligible for the public library cards:
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Talladega Tidbit
As election results begin to come in, it becomes obvious the impact one person can have, be it through voting in a close election or getting involved in organizing on the grassroots level. Take for instance Talladega College alum John Henry McCray (c/o 1935).
John Henry McCray first served as city editor of the Charleston Messenger from 1935 to 1938. In 1939, he started his own newspaper, the Charleston Lighthouse, which was later named the Carolina Lighthouse to reflect McCray’s desire to publish a newspaper with statewide influence.
In 1944, McCray co-founded the Progressive Democratic Party (PDP) of South Carolina.The PDP was the first Black Democratic Party in the Southern United States. McCray co-founded the South Carolina Progressive Democratic Party to challenge state and national Democrats who supported segregation and blocked African American voting. An outspoken critic of racial injustice, McCray was a man ahead of his time. Through his tireless labor as an editor, journalist, and activist, he helped end a discriminatory primary system in South Carolina that disenfranchised African American voters, combatted segregation in South Carolina schools and businesses, and, in the case of Isaac Woodard, broke a story about police brutality that brought national attention to the issue and led President Truman to form the first presidential committee on civil rights.
McCray ended his full-time journalism career in 1964 when he joined the staff at Talladega College as an alumni director. He died on September 15, 1987, in Sylacauga, Alabama. |
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