Regina Andrews and the New York Public Library

Ethelene Whitmire

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Library Science and Administration Libraries, Manuscripts, and Books Race, History, and American Society

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Chicago native Regina Anderson Andrews (1901–93) was a librarian in the New York Public Library (NYPL) system for nearly half a century beginning in 1923 at the 135th Street branch (now the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture) until her retirement from the Washington Heights branch in 1967. Andrews broke the color barrier by becoming the first African American supervising librarian in NYPL history. Her accomplishment was not an easy one. This article illustrates Andrews's groundbreaking career as a librarian and activist, including her fight, with W. E. B. Du Bois as a powerful ally, against the NYPL administration for opportunities for promotion and equal pay.

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1985When and where I enter : the impact of Black women on race and sex in America 1992Climbing Jacob's ladder 1998Strange fruit: plays on lynching by American women 2003"The Place to Go": The 135th Street Branch Library and the Harlem Renaissance 1990A White Librarian in Black Harlem

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