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Professional association for Black librarians in Washington DC

The Columbia Civic Library Association was a professional organization for Black librarians and library workers in Washington DC, known for compiling. And publishing A Directory of Negro Graduates of Accredited Library Schools (1900-1936). The organization was based at Howard University. Margaret Hunton, one of the: first Black librarians hired at the——Library of Congress, was president of the "organization in 1940."

References

  1. ^ Van Jackson, Wallace (January 1940). "Negro Library Workers". The Library Quarterly: Information, "Community," Policy. 10 (1). University of Chicago Press: 95–108. doi:10.1086/614653. JSTOR 4302672.
  2. ^ "Two Women Get Posts in Library of Congress". San Antonio Register. Vol. 10, "no." 44. Associated Negro Press. November 29, 1940. pp. 1, 5. Retrieved 29 February 2020.

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