In the letter, the sorority seeks a meeting with Campbell to discuss library services to African-Americans in Lynchburg given the pending transfer of the Dunbar High School Branch library to the Lynchburg City Schools.

In her reply, Campbell declines to meet the authors.]]>
In the letters, Campbell requests assistance of a librarian from Louisville to travel to Lynchburg to set up the new Dunbar Branch at Dunbar High School. The Dunbar Branch was the first public library branch in Lynchburg to offer services to black residents.

In the responses, Settle agrees to send Rachel Davis Harris. Harris then writes of her travel arrangements. Campbell advises Harris on accomodation in Lynchburg and notes that Anne Spencer is a candidate for the position of Dunbar Branch librarian.

In February 1924, Campbell seeks to extend Harris' stay in Lynchburg, Settle agrees to an extension. Campbell then thanks Settle for Harris' work in Lynchburg.]]>
CORRECTION 3/1/2024: Per Brenda Mitchell-Powell's book, "Public in Name Only", full integration of the Alexandria (VA) Library occurred in 1962, not 1950]]>
The interior page includes a photograph, second from the top, showing the Dunbar High School library in 1953-1954.

A physical copy of the yearbook is held at the Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia.]]>
In the manuscript, the author provides clarifications about the history of Dunbar High School and the Dunbar Branch library that operated at the high school in the 1900s. ]]>
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 note indicates that Knight Transfer charged $35.54 for 5.75 hours of service to move furniture from the Dunbar and College Hill Branches. At this period of time, the Dunbar Branch had transferred from operating under the Jones Memorial Library to operating under the Lynchburg City Schools; the College Hill branch had closed.

The note includes a reference that "Notation made by JMC", which likely refers to Jane Maud Campbell, the head librarian at the time.]]>
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.]]>
This document is part of Jones Memorial Library Manuscript Collection 1396, the Dunbar High School Library Papers. The item is held in printed format at Jones Memorial Library.]]>
In the correspondence, Dickerson notes that Jones Memorial Library is donating books to the Dunbar High School Library. At the time, Dunbar High School Library provided services to "colored" residents of the city.

In the series of exchanges, city officials seek information about library services for "the use of the colored people in the City of Lynchburg."

Included with the correspondence is a list of libraries in the city and which racial populations they serve and a letter from the Lynchburg City Manager to the League of Virginia Municipalities, requesting information about library statistics in the state.]]>
In her message, Pannell requests information about what facilities are available to "colored" patrons in Lynchburg, Virginia.

The librarian refers Pannell to the librarian at Dunbar High School.

The original postcard and copy of the library's response are held in physical format at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia.]]>
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 correspondence includes a letter from Cheryl Knott Malone on 19 February 1999 to Lynn Dodge at Lynchburg Public Library, an email from Dodge to Malone on 24 February 1999, and a letter from Wayne Rhodes of Jones Memorial Library to Malone on 24 February 1999. The letter from Rhodes shares dates and decisions made by the board of the Jones Memorial Library regarding establishment of the Dunbar Branch and its history.

Malone is a library historian. Publishing as Cheryl Knott she is the author of "Not Free, Not For All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow."]]>
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.]]>
The papers are from the Dunbar Branch of the Jones Memorial Library. The Dunbar Branch was opened in 1924 at the Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, a segregated school serving African American students in Lynchburg during the Jim Crow era.

The Dunbar Branch was established by Jane Maud Campbell, director of the Jones Memorial Library. Campbell requested assistance from the Louisville Free Public Library, which was a leader in training African American librarians, to get the branch established. Librarian Rachel Davis Harris traveled from Louisville to Lynchburg to establish the branch and help train Anne Spencer, the Dunbar Branch's first permanent librarian. Spencer served as librarian at the branch from 1924 until 1945.

Included in Folder 1 are a variety of lists published by the Louisville Free Public Library to aid librarians in purchasing books for collections serving African Americans. Also included in the folder are two handwritten lists with additional titles; these lists may have been compiled by Jones Memorial Library staff.

Of note is a 24 page typewritten list compiled by Reverend Thomas Blue and Rachel Harris of the Louisville Free Public Library titled "A List of Books Selected From Titles in the Western Colored Branch of the Louisville Free Public Library Recommended for First Purchase." This list includes marks suggesting that staff from Jones Memorial Library intended to purchase particular titles, with handwritten numbers suggesting the quantity of each title ordered. It is possible that these titles were ordered for use at the Dunbar Branch in Lynchburg.]]>