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Dorothy Porter Wesley and the Fight to Preserve Black History

on March 16, 2021August 9, 2025 By Pulp Culture

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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