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The fastest library growth happened in urban cities such as Atlanta while rural towns, particularly in the American South, were slower to add Black libraries. [1] Andrew Carnegie and the Works Progress Administration helped establish libraries for African Americans, including at historically Black college and university campuses. [ 1 ]
One Alabama library, the Selma Free Library, was preferred by some students of Selma University over that of their own institution. [3] Freedom libraries carried books "typical" of other American libraries, but also paid special attention to books about African American people or written by Black authors.
This is a list of African American newspapers and media outlets, which is sortable by publication name, city, state, founding date, and extant vs. defunct status. For more detail on a given newspaper, see the linked entries below. See also by state, below on this page, for entries on African American newspapers in each state.
The Alexandria Black History Museum, located at 902 Wythe St., Alexandria, Virginia, is operated by the City of Alexandria.The building was formerly the Robert Robinson Library, originally constructed in 1940 as the first "separate but equal" library for African Americans in the segregated city.
From the time that the library opened in 1921 until it closed in 1959 numerous African American women librarians managed the library. The two most notable among them were Alice Dugged Cary and Annie L. McPheeters. McPheeters was crucial in the development of the core collection known as, the Negro History Collection. [8]
The library was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. [1] [3] In 2001, Prince anonymously donated $12,000 to keep the library from closure. [10] Today, the library is home to the African-American Archives, a collection of great historical documents and resources focusing on African-American narratives and experiences.
An example of an African American museum: The Dr. Carter G. Woodson African American History Museum. Woodson was the founder of Black History Month, and a noted educator. This is a list of museums in the United States whose primary focus is on African American culture and history. Such museums are commonly known as African American museums ...
This is a list of African Americans, also known as Black Americans (for the outdated and unscientific racial term) or Afro-Americans.African Americans are an ethnic group consisting of citizens of the United States mainly descended from various West African and Central African peoples with possible minor additional ancestry from Europe or indigenous Americans and other regions of Africa.