People's Libraries Society

People's Libraries Society was an educational society established in 1880 for the Prussian partition of Poland. Its main goal was to promote education in Polish amongst the people, especially the lower classes, and to revert the Germanisation practices of the Prussian authorities. The society established a network of libraries, reading rooms, and organized speeches. It was active until the outbreak of World War II in 1939, and it was dissolved in 1950.

Famous members

Władysław Niegolewski was a Polish liberal politician and member of parliament, insurgent in Greater Poland Uprising (1846), Greater Poland Uprising (1848) and January Uprising, cofounder of the Central Economic Society in 1861 and People's Libraries Society in 1880.