Carla Garner
Carla W. Garner is an independent researcher in Barrington, Illinois. She has a BA in English from Northwestern University and an MLIS from San Jose State University. The Racine, Wisconsin native has worked in the private sector for Bose Corporation, Heritage Wisconsin Corporation, and the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce. Her research has looked at information exchange among farm women, librarianship during the Depression, and library development in the rural Midwest.
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Effie Lee Morris (1921-2009)
In choosing librarianship over teaching or social work, Effie Lee Morris combined her desire to help people with a personal...
William G. Allen (1820-?)
Nineteenth-century lecturer and educator William G. Allen endured physical violence and barely escaped murder when he proposed marriage to the...
New Philadelphia, Illinois (1836- )
New Philadelphia, Illinois was one of the most famous of the antebellum all-black towns. Founded by Free Frank McWorter (1777-1854),...
Brooklyn, Illinois (ca. 1823- )
In the early 1820s, eleven African American families, some free, some fugitive, crossed the Mississippi River from the slave-state of...
Louis Wade Sullivan (1933- )
After witnessing poverty and discrimination in Depression-era Georgia, Louis Wade Sullivan committed his career to education and public service, rising...
Alphonso R. Jackson (1945- )
Alphonso R. Jackson cultivated a three-decade career in public service that included an appointment as head of the U.S. Department...
Samuel R. Pierce, Jr. (1922-2000)
Lawyer, judge, and businessman Samuel Riley Pierce Jr. was the first African American partner in a major New York law...
Bennie G. Thompson (1948- )
Bennie G. Thompson, United States Representative from Mississippi’s Second Congressional District, is the chair of the House Homeland Security Committee...
BlackPast.org (2007- )
Blackpast.org (www.blackpast.org) is the largest web-based free content reference center currently on the Internet that is dedicated primarily to the...
Augusta Braxston Baker (1911-1998)
Librarian, author, and storyteller Augusta Braxston Baker was the first African American woman to hold an administrative position with the...
Eugene James “Jacques” Bullard (1895-1961)
Eugene James (Jacques) Bullard, the first African American combat aviator, was known as the “black swallow of death” for his...
Clay Evans (1925- )
Evangelist and civil rights leader Reverend Clay Evans founded the Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago, Illinois, in 1958 and...
