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African American Libraries
A guide that focuses on the history of African American libraries from the Jim Crow era to the Civil Rights Movement and Black librarians who contributed to the field.
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Celebrating African-American Librarians and Librarianship
This article highlights African American librarians contributions to the field.
Bridging the Gap in Early Library Education History for African Americans: The Negro Teacher-Librarian Training Program (1936-1939)
The history of the development of the negro teacher librarian training program.
Edward C. Williams, the first professionally trained Black librarian in U.S.
A newspaper article on the first professionally trained Black Librarian in the U.S.
Strange Career: Reconciling Race and Profession in American Librarianship
The struggle for America to diversify the librarian field.
From Trailblazers to Today
A periodical on Black librarians from the past to the present.
13 Pioneering Black American Librarians You Oughta Know
Highlighting 13 Black librarians who were pioneers in librarianship.
Clara Stanton Jones
A biography of the first African American to become the president of the American Library Association.
Virginia Proctor Powell Florence, her degree in library science a first for a Black woman
A biography of the first Black woman to receive a degree in library science.
Back in the Day: Curating Inclusion
A biography of Mollie Huston Lee who became the first African American librarian in Wake County.
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