Amid Changes at the National Archives, the Carter Library Cancels a Civil Rights Book Event
After President Trump put in new leadership at the National Archives, the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta ...
‘Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy’ Review: The Woman Who Shaped the Morgan Museum
At the Morgan Library & Museum, an exhibition looks at the museum’s first director, whose remarkable career broke prejudicial barriers as she helped hone the tastes of avid collector J.P. Morgan.
The Black librarian who rewrote the rules of power, gender and passing as white
Just Because I am a Librarian doesn’t mean I have to dress like one.” With this breezy pronouncement, Belle da Costa Greene ...
'It’s a little overdue': Book returned to Ocean County Library after 99 years
The book, it turns out, was borrowed in 1926 by Mary Cooper's grandfather Charles Tilton, a prominent Jersey Shore captain.
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The Trailblazing Black Librarian Who Rewrote the Rules of Power, Gender and Racial Passing
Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...