This letter is part of Jones Memorial Library Manuscript Collection 1396. ]]>
This list is part of Jones Memorial Library Manuscript Collection 1396, the Dunbar High School Library Papers.]]>
This letter is part of Jones Memorial Library Manuscript Collection 1396, the Dunbar High School Library Papers. ]]>
The list is sorted alphabetically by author last name and includes recommended titles to include in a library serving African Americans in the early 1900s.]]>
This item is part of Jones Memorial Library Manuscript Collection 1396, the Dunbar High School Library Papers.]]>
The postcard is alluding to the segregated services of Patterson Drug Store in Lynchburg, Virginia. The store had been the site of a December 1960 sit-in by students at Randolph College, protesting the racial segregation of the drugstore's restaurant services.]]>
The Dunbar Branch was opened in 1924 in the Dunbar High School in Lynchburg and was the first branch of the Jones Memorial Library. The branch provided service to "colored" residents of the city during a time when library services were racially segregated.

This report records the circulation of library books and materials at the branch during its first month of operation. The report was submitted by Anne Spencer, who was appointed as the branch's permanent librarian, and Rachel Davis Harris, who had traveled to Lynchburg from the Louisville Free Public Library's Western Colored Division in 1923-1924 to advise and assist with establishment of the Dunbar Branch. The report appears to have been entered by hand by Anne Spencer.]]>
The printed pamphlet is held in physical format as part of Manuscript Collection 1396, Folder 6 at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia.

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The physical pamphlet is held at Jones Memorial Library in Manuscript Collection 1396, Folder 6. The undated pamphlet is printed double-sided, and folded.

Some handwritten marks and notes suggest that Jones Memorial Library staff reviewed the list of books for acquisition.]]>
This item is part of the Jones Memorial Library Manuscript Collection 1396, Folder 6, added to the collection in December 2023. Material is held in physical format at the Jones Memorial Library.

The Julius Rosenwald Fund provided funding for libraries serving African-Americans in the 1920s. This list contains recommended book titles for inclusion in a high school library serving African American students.]]>