It’s Black History Month, so why not talk about five excellent black librarians who have left their mark on the profession — and for that matter, the world?
Resources to learn about racism and libraries
- Thread of resources by twitter user @LibrarianAngie: https://twitter.com/LibrarianAngie/status/1090766370277675009
- “At the Intersection” blog by April Hathcock: https://aprilhathcock.wordpress.com/
Sources
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/remembering-howard-university-librarian-who-decolonized-way-books-were-catalogued-180970890/
- Walker, B. (2005). Daniel Alexander Payne Murray (1852-1925), Forgotten Librarian, Bibliographer, and Historian. Libraries & Culture, 40(1), 25-37. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/stable/25541881
- The Original Black Elite, but Elizabeth Dowling Taylor.
- The Black Librarian in America, by Elonnie Junius Josey.
- https://www.bcala.org/our-history/
Credits
- Carla Hayden: CC-BY – https://www.flickr.com/photos/terryballard/29094319038/
- Enoch Pratt: CC-BY- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Enoch_pratt_library.jpg
- Baltimore Protests: CC-BY- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FreddieGrayPrecinctProtest.jpg
- Dorothy Porter: by Carl Van Vechten, C/O Yale University’s Beinecke RBML, used under Fair Use for Education Purposes
- Moorland-Spingarn: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Howard_University_Moorland%E2%80%93Spingarn_Research_Center.JPG
- Audre Lorde: CC-BY- https://www.flickr.com/photos/42401725@N00/2733757260
- Women’s March: Public Domain
- Daniel Murray: Evants-Tibbs Collection, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution used under education provisions for Fair Use.
- Murray Pamphlets: C/O Library of Congress, Public Domain
- E.J. Josey: U.Pittsburgh, used under education provisions for Fair Use.