Location
Special Collections Reading Room, Floor 3U
Date
Feb 28, 2023
Time
02:00 PM EST
Cost
Free
This program is organized by BPL Special Collections Department.
About this event
The Special Collections Department at BPL will be holding an open house on Feb 28 from 2-4 pm, and will feature a unique selection of items highlighting Black voices in our collections.
Can’t make it? These items are also available for walk-in visits in the special collections reading room (Wednesday-Friday 9:30 am-4:30 pm) for the entire month of February. Click here to learn more about the Special Collections department.
Louise Jefferson (1945), "Uprooted People of the USA" (map)
Langston Hughes (1926), The Weary Blues (book)
W.E.B. DuBois (1903), Souls of Black Folk (book)
Calvin Burnett (1944), Jam Session (watercolor)
Jack Miller (selected photographs from the collection of a local photojournalist, ca. 1930)