How a woman born in rural Virginia built one of the world’s greatest African American research collections. Born in Warrenton, Virginia in 1905, Dorothy Porter Wesley would become one of the most influential figures in African American librarianship. As curator of Howard University’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, she transformed a modest collection into one of the [...]
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The Black Cabinet and Mary McLeod Bethune
The room fell quiet as Eleanor Roosevelt stepped away from the podium. She had just finished speaking at a Commerce Department meeting on Black education. Her words promised change—change that many in the room doubted they’d ever see. And then, without hesitation, the First Lady crossed the floor. Every eye followed her as she stopped [...]
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