themes from 3-3 lecture

What are the major themes of the in-person and online lectures:
Louise Robbins’ A Question of Access

Another important theme of Robbins' lecture (aside from racial stratification) was political context affecting fair access to information. She directed us to jimcrowhistory.org to learn about the effects of legal segregation.
But WWII was another major talking point. Superpatriotic groups during the war time put pressure on all citizens to conform. Also, postwar, in 1947 there were "loyalty investigations." In 1953, McCarthy attacked the overseas libraries of the US Information Agency to crack down on supposed communists.
These facts are all important because we can compare this to the political pressures of the Patriotic Act, and how these thus constrain library usage and information access. As Robbins pointed out, there are 3 requirements for participation in the global knowledge society: literacy (and numeracy), content, and access to that content (libraries, ICTs, transportation, intermediaries.) Without social or political freedom (especially proven historically by the effect of the Jim Crow law upon blacks), there is no access to content, and thus no participation.