Free for All: The Public Library

The story of the quiet revolutionaries who made a simple idea of a public library happen. From the pioneering women behind the "Free Library Movement" to today's librarians who service the public despite working in a contentious age of closures and book bans, meet those who created a civic institution where everything is free and the doors are open to all.

Cast

Laurie Anderson

as Self

Deborah Caldwell-Stone

as Self

Malkia Cyril

as Self

Lolis Eric Elie

as Self

Sylvia Flowers

as Self

Geraldine Edwards Hollis

as Self

Crosby Kemper

as Self

JoNell Kennedy

as Self

Jill Lepore

as Self

David Nasaw

as Self

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