African American libraries
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Libraries in the United States with collections and research materials related to the history of African Americans include;
History
William Whipper helped found the Reading Room Society established in Philadelphia in 1828 was a social library for African Americans. In 1831 the Female Literary Society, a social library for women, was established in Philadelphia. Enoch Pratt Free Library was integrated. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of segregating public venues in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision. In 1901 a Carnegie Library is built at Tuskegee Institute. In 1926 the Schomburg Center is established in New York City with the collection of historian Arturo Alfonso Schomburg's collection of materials. In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision renders "separate but equal" unconstitutional.
Edward Christopher Williams was one of the first professionally trained black librarians. He worked at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Catherine Latimer became a librarian at the New York Public Library and headed its Division of Negro Literature, History and Prints. Dorothy Porter Wesley wrote bibliographies of African American literature at Howard University. Carla Hayden became a Librarian of Congress.[1]
Libraries
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Library[2]
- African-American Research Library and Cultural Center in Washington Park, Florida
- Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library in Denver, Colorado's Five Points neighborhood
- Amistad Research Center
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History in Atlanta, Georgia
- African American Library at the Gregory School[3]
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture[4]
- Moorland–Spingarn Research Center
- North Greenwood Library in the North Greenwood neighborhood of Clearwater, Florida
- Dr. Carter G. Woodson African American Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida
- Robert W. Saunders, Sr. Public Library in Tampa, Florida[5]
- African American Cultural Resource Center at Betty J. Johnson North Sarasota Public Library[6]
- Black Resource Center at Los Angeles County Library at the A C Bilbrew Library in Los Angeles[7]
- Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature at the Chicago Public Library's Woodson Regional Library[8]
- Louisville Western Branch Library[9]
- African American Museum and Library at Oakland in Oakland, California[10]
Further reading
- African‐Americans and U.S. Libraries: History by Cheryl Knott Malone
References
- ^ https://librarynews.blog.fordham.edu/2021/02/22/leaders-in-library-history/
- ^ https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/library
- ^ https://www.visithoustontexas.com/listings/the-african-american-library-at-the-gregory-school/23216/
- ^ https://www.nypl.org/about/locations/schomburg
- ^ https://hcplc.org/research/african-american
- ^ https://www.bettyjjohnsonfriends.org/our-history2
- ^ https://lacountylibrary.org/black-resource-center/
- ^ https://www.chipublib.org/vivian-g-harsh-research-collection/
- ^ https://www.lfpl.org/separateflame
- ^ https://oaklandlibrary.org/aamlo/