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Alpha Theta Sigma Letter to Maud Campbell and Reply from Campbell
In the letter, the sorority seeks a meeting with Campbell to discuss library services to…
Letters to Louisville
Dunbar High School Architectural Plans
Dunbar High School served "colored" students in the city during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation. Jones Memorial…
Tags: African-American schools, African-Americans in Lynchburg, architects, architectural plans, blacks in Lynchburg, blueprints, buildings, construction, Craighill & Cardwell, Dunbar Branch, Dunbar High School, Dunbar High School Library, Lynchburg City Schools, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Public Schools, school buildings, schools, segregated libraries, segregated schools, segregation
Image of Dunbar High School library 1953-1954
The interior page includes a photograph, second from the top, showing the Dunbar High School…
Dunbarian Vol 1 No 7
Included on page two of the newsletter are…
Biographical sketch of Susan Elizabeth Fain Davis
The printed…
Finding Aid to the Dunbar High School Library Papers
Dunbar High School Library was a branch library of Jones Memorial Library. The library provided library services to city residents at the…
Tags: 1922, 1937, African-Americans, Anne Scales Spencer, Anne Spencer, blacks, blacks in Lynchburg, book lists, circulation reports, correspondence, Dunbar High School, Dunbar High School Library, finding aids, George Madden Martin, J Maud Campbell, Jane Maud Campbell, Jones Memorial Library, librarians, library branches, library history, MS 1396, MS1396, papers, segregated libraries, segregation, Spencer family
Booklists for Dunbar Branch, MS1396 Folder 1
The papers are from the Dunbar Branch of the Jones Memorial Library. The Dunbar Branch was opened in 1924 at the Paul Laurence…
Tags: 1920s, 1921, African American literature, African Americans, Anne Spencer, Associated Publishers, authors, black literature, book catalogs, book purchasing, books, catalogs, Dunbar Branch, Dunbar High School, Dunbar High School Library, inventories, Jane Maud Campbell, Jones Memorial Library, librarians, libraries, library administration, library branches, library history, lists, Louisville Free Public Library, Lynchburg, Maud Campbell, Rachel Davis Harris, reading, Reverend Thomas Blue, segregated libraries, segregation, Thomas Blue
Lynchburg City and Jones Memorial Library Correspondence
In the correspondence, Dickerson notes that Jones Memorial Library is donating books to the…
Tags: city of Lynchburg, Dunbar Branch, Dunbar High School, Dunbar High School Library, Harold Baumes, integration, J.D. Wright, Jim Crow era, Jones Memorial Library, libraries, library history, Lucille Dickerson, Lynchburg City Schools, Paul Munro, public libraries, RWB Hart, school libraries, schools, segregation
Jones Memorial Library Board Minutes December 1945
In the meeting, Head Librarian Jane Maud Campbell recommends closure of the Dunbar Branch and the board votes to explore transfer of the…
Jones Memorial Library Board Minutes November 1943
Jones Memorial Library Minutes 31 January 1944
Jones Memorial Library Board Meeting Minutes 25 January 1933
Letters to Publishers
Jones Memorial Library Internal Revenue Service application
Jones Memorial Library Board Minutes 21 January 1943
Jones Memorial Library Board Minutes 22 January 1925
Jones Memorial Library Board Meeting Minutes 14 January 1924
Rachel Davis Harris letter
The 1924 letter shares that Harris has returned to Louisville…
Josephine Humbles Letter to Maud Campbell
Houston Public Library letters regarding American Library Association questionnaire
The first letter is from Julia Ideson, librarian at the Houston Public…
Some Books and Pamphlets, Music, Magazines and Newspapers by Negro Writers, Composers and Editors in the Colored Department of the Louisville Free Public Library
This document is part of…
Cheryl Knott Malone Correspondence
The correspondence includes a letter from Cheryl Knott Malone on 19 February 1999 to Lynn Dodge at…
Tags: African-Americans, African-Americans in Lynchburg, Anne Scales Spencer, Anne Spencer, black librarians, black libraries, Cheryl Knott Malone, Dunbar Branch, Dunbar High School, Dunbar High School Library, integration, Jane Maud Campbell, Jones Memorial Library, libraries, library history, Louisville Free Public Library, Lynchburg City Schools, Lynn Dodge, public libraries, Rachel Davis Harris, segregation, Wayne Rhodes
Integration Timeline of Public Libraries and Schools in Virginia
CORRECTION 3/1/2024: Per Brenda Mitchell-Powell's book, "Public in Name Only", full integration of the Alexandria (VA) Library occurred in…
Report of Dunbar Branch January 1924
The Dunbar Branch was opened in 1924 in the Dunbar High School in Lynchburg and was the first branch of the Jones…
Tags: African Americans, African Americans in Lynchburg, Anne Spencer, books, circulation, Dunbar Branch, Dunbar High School, Dunbar High School Library, George M. Jones Memorial Library, Jane Maud Campbell, Jones Memorial Library, librarianship, libraries, library history, library services, MS 1396, MS1396, Rachel Davis Harris, segregation, Spencer family
Anne Spencer Resignation Letter
In the letter, Spencer resigns from her position as librarian of the Dunbar Branch at…
Dunbar Branch February 1924 Report
The Dunbar High School Story!!
In the manuscript, the author provides…
The Dunbar Story
Woman's Community Club Letter to Maud Campbell
The letter was written in April 1946 seeking relocation of the Dunbar Branch library…