Negro Public Library, Nashville, Tennessee (1916-1949)
2019年11月17日 · The Negro Public Library (later the Negro Branch of the Nashville Public Library) operated for over thirty years as a segregated library facility in Nashville, Tennessee. It was the city’s first public library for African Americans and one of only a dozen segregated public libraries in the South funded by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and ...
Library History - Nashville Public Library
1916 - Negro Branch Library opens at 12th and Hines Avenue. 1919 - East Nashville Branch opens at the junction of Main and 11th Streets. Carnegie donates $25,000 for the building.
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The Negro Branch of the Carnegie Library closed in 1949 and was succeeded by the Hadley Park Public Library branch in 1952. The only extant pieces of Nashville’s first African-American public library are the door lintel and cornerstone which are in the courtyard of Nashville’s downtown Ben West Library. - Linda T. Wynn
and monthly reports of the Nashville Library Building Program. The Books series contains scrapbooks, reports, and other administrative records for the Howard, Carnegie, and Ben West libraries, as well as the East, Negro, North, and South Branches. Books are arranged alphabetically by library or branch, and
Nashville Public Library - Wikipedia
The Negro Branch of the Carnegie Library (later the Negro Branch of the Nashville Public Library) opened in 1916. [9] At the time, about a third of the city's population was African-American. [11] It was one of the few libraries in the South that rendered library services to African-Americans. [9]
The Main Library Turns 20! - Nashville Public Library
2021年6月23日 · 1916: The Negro Branch located at 12th and Hines Ave, with Marian Hadley as the First Librarian. It closed in 1949 (due to its poor location, according to the Library director at that time), before the Library system integrated.
The Negro Branch of the Carnegie Library of Nashville (Nashville ...
In 1916, the Carnegie Library of Nashville (now the Nashville Public Library) opened the Negro Branch of the Carnegie Library of Nashville. It was built with a gift of $25,000 from Andrew Carnegie and remained in operation until 1949.
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The Negro Public Library (later the Negro Branch of the Nashville Public Library) operated for over thirty years as a segregated library facility in Nashville, Tennessee. It was the city’s first public library for African Americans and one of only a dozen segregated public libraries in the South funded by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and ...
Marian M. Hadley - Wikipedia
Marian M. Hadley was Nashville, Tennessee's first African American librarian, serving as the first librarian of the Nashville Negro Public Library, a branch of the Nashville Public Library for African American patrons. [1]
List of Carnegie libraries in Tennessee - Wikipedia
The following list of Carnegie libraries in Tennessee provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in Tennessee, where 12 free public libraries were built from nine grants (totaling $310,500) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1900 to 1917.
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