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ENTRE A BIBLIOTECONOMIA E O TRABALHO SOCIAL
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Bibliotecario Negro
sábado, 26 de fevereiro de 2011
In choosing librarianship over teaching or social work, Effie Lee Morris combined her desire to help people with a personal passion for education. In doing so she became one of America’s leading advocates for services to children, minorities, and the visually-impaired. Born in Richmond, Virginia on April 20, 1921, Morris spent her youth in Cleveland, Ohio. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1945, Bachelor of Library Science in 1946, and Master's in Library Science in 1956 all from Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve University).
Morris began work in 1946 at the Cleveland Public Library and established the first Negro History Week celebration for children there. In 1955, she moved to New York as a children’s branch librarian in the Bronx. Three years later, in 1958, she pioneered the development of library services for blind children. She later served as president of the National Braille Club from 1961 to 1963.
In 1963, Morris joined the San Francisco Public Library (SFPL) as its first children’s services coordinator. A year later, she created the library’s Effie Lee Morris Historical and Research Collection for out-of-print children’s books, featuring titles that depict the changing portrayals of ethnic and minority groups during the 20th Century. She remained at SFPL for 15 years and then served as editor of children's books at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich from 1978 to 1979.
Active in the American Library Association (ALA) since 1949, Morris chaired the Social Responsibilities Round Table and was an early supporter and chairman of the Coretta Scott King Award in Children's Literature. From 1971 to 1972 she was the first African American President of the Public Library Association. In 2008, Morris was elected to honorary membership in the American Library Association, the organization’s highest honor, given to a living member of the Association who has made significant contributions to the field on librarianship. Morris was given the honorary membership “in recognition for her vision, advocacy and legacy to children’s services in public libraries.” Effie Lee Morris died at her home in San Francisco in 2009.
BIBLIOTECÁRIA, ATRIZ, EDUCADORA ...
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Bibliotecario Negro
sábado, 19 de fevereiro de 2011
Roberta Byrd Barr was an African American educator, civil rights leader, actress, librarian, and television personality. She was a talented, multifaceted personality with a calm presence, thoughtful demeanor, and a darkly melodious voice which served her well in the many roles she played in the Seattle community.
Barr was a Seattle Public Schools elementary teacher, librarian and administrator. During the 1966 school boycott when the black community protested the lack of progress toward desegregation, she headed the Freedom School at the YMCA. In 1968, she was appointed vice principal at Franklin High School, and in 1973 she was appointed principal of Lincoln High School, becoming the first woman in the history of the Seattle Public Schools to head a high school.
Barr’s acting and television career began in the early 1960s when she starred in the Cirque Theatre production of “Raisin in the Sun.” On KCTS/Channel 9, she told stories to young children in a show called “Let’s Imagine.” Later she moderated the program “Face to Face” on King TV from 1965-1970, and from 1971-1972, on KCTS/9. The program featured guest speakers talking about controversial topics such as desegregation and welfare. Barr awakened the community to civil rights issues and other important topics overlooked in the media. She acted as a bridge between the black and white communities. Her picture hangs in the Douglas-Truth Public Library where her efforts, through her sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, helped promote the development of the African American Collection.
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O PRIMEIRO NEGRO A SE FORMAR EM HARVARD
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Bibliotecario Negro
sábado, 12 de fevereiro de 2011
Richard Theodore Greener, a native of Philadelphia, became the first African American to graduate from Harvard College. He later served the United States in diplomatic posts in India and Russia. Greener lived in Boston and Cambridge as a child and entered Harvard in 1865 and received an A.B. degree from the institution in 1870. After graduation he was appointed principal of the Male Department at Philadelphia’s Institute for Colored Youth which later became Cheyney University. Three years later Greener became professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy at the University of South Carolina where he also served as librarian and taught Greek, Mathematics and Constitutional Law. While there Greener entered the Law School and received an LL.B degree in 1876.
Active in the Republican Party, Greener was appointed United States Consul at Bombay, India in 1898 by President William McKinley. Later that year he was transferred to Vladivostok, Russia, where he served as commercial agent until 1905. During his term Greener reported to Washington on the construction of the Tran Siberian Railroad, the rapid growth of the European Russian population in the region, the status of the local Jewish population, and the local impact of China’s Boxer Rebellion in 1900. Recognizing Siberia’s growing importance to United States economic interests, Greener called unsuccessfully for the U.S. State Department to establish a consul-general in Vladivostok. During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 Greener supervised the evacuation of the Japanese from Sakhalin Island. In October, 1905 Greener was recalled from Vladivostok. He retired to Chicago the following year and died there in 1922.
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