Tag: Libraries
Activist who helped desegregate Birmingham library dies
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A Black Army veteran who helped peacefully desegregate an Alabama city's library with a sit-in protest in 1963 has died, according...
Activist who helped desegregate Birmingham library dies
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A Black Army veteran who helped peacefully desegregate an Alabama city's library with a sit-in protest in 1963 has died, according...
Indiana library lands grant to digitize 19th century records
VINCENNES, Ind. — A rare collection of hundreds of public records that span the 19th century is set for preservation thanks to a grant...
‘Pivotal time:’ Museum obtains key 1854 Lincoln letter
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — An 1854 letter hinting at Abraham Lincoln's transition from prairie legislator to political powerhouse, donated to the state of Illinois, was...
Author Joy Williams honored by Library of Congress
NEW YORK — The Library of Congress awarded a lifetime achievement prize to Joy Williams, a fiction writer known for her spare prose and...
Jacobs’ post-pandemic runway: Parading puffers in patterns
NEW YORK — Theaters are dusting off the cobwebs and coming to life, the streets of midtown Manhattan are bustling, Bruce Springsteen is back...
Reimagined Harry Truman presidential library set to reopen
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — After nearly two years of renovations complicated by COVID-19 restrictions, the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum is ready to...
Library of Congress gets health workers’ audio COVID diaries
WASHINGTON — The Library of Congress has acquired a digital archive of the real-time impressions of more than 200 frontline health care workers documenting...
Lawsuit alleges vision specialist sexually abused 2 students
The parents of two legally blind girls have filed a federal lawsuit against two suburban Detroit school districts and a vision specialist whom they...
Luiselli’s prize-winning novel responds to migratory crisis
MEXICO CITY — Valeria Luiselli is pleased to have passed the libraries’ test with her first novel written directly in English, “Lost Children Archive”...