19 July 2021

This Fact Is Overdue #19

 

NYC Library Firsts


A comparison of the very different lives of Pura Belpre and Belle da Costa Greene

Pura Belpre (left) and Belle Da Costa Greene (right)


REFERENCES

American Library Association
https://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/belpre

Benedict, M. and V.C. Murray (2021) The Personal Librarian: a novel. Berkeley: Penguin Random House.


Colorin Colorado
https://www.colorincolorado.org/books-authors/pura-belpr%C3%A9-her-life-and-legacy


Guide to the Pura Belpré Papers, Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños
https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/collections/pura-belpr%C3%A9-biographical-essay


Guzman, W. (2020) PURA BELPRÉ (1903-1982) Black Past
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/pura-belpre-1903-1982/


Hernandez-Delgado, J. (1992) Pura Theresa Belpre, Storyteller and Pioneer Puerto Rican Librarian. The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy, 62(4); 425-440.

Knapp, F. (2020) She Was a Black Librarian Who Could Equal America’s Most Powerful Man
https://www.messynessychic.com/2020/06/03/she-was-a-black-librarian-who-could-equal-americas-most-powerful-man/


Marie Benedict
https://www.authormariebenedict.com/


Nielsen, E. (2021) BELLE DA COSTA GREENE (1883-1950) Black Past
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/belle-da-costa-greene-1883-1950/


Rosenberg, R. (2020) PURA BELPRÉ, THE FIRST PUERTO RICAN LIBRARIAN IN NYC (AND MY LIBRARY HERO) Book Riot  https://bookriot.com/pura-belpre/


The Attic (2019)
https://brucewatson4.medium.com/the-black-woman-who-managed-morgans-millions-f067b31d1024


The Morgan Library & Museum
https://www.themorgan.org/belle-greene


Ulaby, N. (2016) How NYC’s First Puerto Rican Librarian Brought Spanish To The Shelves
https://www.npr.org/2016/09/08/492957864/how-nycs-first-puerto-rican-librarian-brought-spanish-to-the-shelves


Wellesley, M. (2015) Forged Lives. Lapham’s Quarterly

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/forged-lives

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