The Story of the Young Women's Book Club and the Birth of the Scottsboro Public Library

About the Book

An amazing and enthralling account of how a group of young women, in the heart of the Great Depression, managed to plan, finance, and open a public library for their hometown. This book documents their struggles to improve and enlarge their original tiny library into the impressive entity it has grown into at the present time. Along the way they would age and change their club name while always maintaining allegiance to their firstborn---the Scottsboro Public Library. Their crowning achievement was creating the first public library in the state of Alabama outside a metropolitan center. Their sacrifices resulted in a magnificent gift to their hometown. This is their story.

About the Author

Marilyn Morris is a retired Jackson County, Alabama school teacher. She hold a B.A. in English and a M.A. in Developmental Learning from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Her first paying job was writing for the Huntsville Times at the age of thirteen. She has loved books and reading all her life. She is a former library board member and works in the library part-time since her retirement. A descendant of the founding families of Scottsboro, Alabama, she has always lived there and plans on dying there.