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    Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian: Harlem Renaissance Librarian

    Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian by Whitmire, Ethelene;

    Harlem Renaissance Librarian

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1st Edition
    • Publisher University of Illinois Press
    • Date of Publication 1 May 2014
    • Number of Volumes Hardback

    • ISBN 9780252038501
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages168 pages
    • Size 229x152x25 mm
    • Weight 426 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 23 black and white photographs
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    Long description:

    The first African American to head a branch of the New York Public Library (NYPL), Regina Andrews led an extraordinary life. Allied with W. E. B. Du Bois, Andrews fought for promotion and equal pay against entrenched sexism and racism and battled institutional restrictions confining African American librarians to only a few neighborhoods within New York City.

    Andrews also played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance, supporting writers and intellectuals with dedicated workspace at her 135th Street Branch Library. After hours she cohosted a legendary salon that drew the likes of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. Her work as an actress and playwright helped establish the Harlem Experimental Theater, where she wrote plays about lynching, passing, and the Underground Railroad.

    Ethelene Whitmire's new biography offers the first full-length study of Andrews's activism and pioneering work with the NYPL. Whitmire's portrait of her sustained efforts to break down barriers reveals Andrews's legacy and places her within the NYPL's larger history.

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    Table of Contents:

    Cover
    Title
    Contents
    Acknowledgments
    Introduction
    1. Chicago: The Beginning
    2. Normal, Illinois; Chicago; Wilberforce, and Chicago Public Library
    3. Harmlem Renaissance Women and 580 St. Nicholas Avenue
    4. Marriage
    5. The Harlem Experimental Theatre
    6. The New York Public Library
    7. International Flights
    8. Mahopac, New York
    Notes
    Index

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