You aren’t stealing the book. They’re saying m that you are stealing their charity. And their charity is part of how they perform citizenship. The branded little free libraries are very much tied to white ideas of charity, thus they come with binaries about who deserves charity.

I didn't know that until after the school opened and I looked her up. The school's website has a page explaining who she was, and it links to a longer explanation of her suit against the NYC transit system. It's nice to see: be456.org/history-1

She's gotten some renewed attention in Brooklyn since they named a new school after her last year, but it's definitely not enough.