Institutions-Library
Free Colored Library, Knoxville, Tennessee (1918-1961)
The Free Colored Library of Knoxville, Tennessee was a segregated public library that opened in 1918 and closed 43 years...
Dryades Branch Library, New Orleans, Louisiana (1915-1965)
The Dryades Branch of the New Orleans Public Library was the first municipally-supported library for New Orleans’s black citizens and...
Carnegie Negro Library, Greensboro, North Carolina (1924-1963)
The Carnegie Negro Library of Greensboro, North Carolina, a free public library for African Americans, opened in 1924. It stood...
Negro Public Library, Nashville, Tennessee (1916-1949)
The Negro Public Library (later the Negro Branch of the Nashville Public Library) operated for over thirty years as a...
Colored Carnegie Library, Houston, Texas (1913-1961)
The Colored Carnegie Library was a segregated branch of the Houston Lyceum and Carnegie Library (later the Houston Public Library)....
Cherry Street Library, Evansville, Indiana (1914-1955)
The Cherry Street Library was a segregated branch of the Evansville Public Library (now Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library) located at...
Stanford Lee Warren (1863-1940)
Dr. Stanford Lee Warren, a co-founder of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company and the Mechanics and Farmers Bank in...
East Henry Street Carnegie Library, Savannah, Georgia (1914- )
The East Henry Street Carnegie Library is a branch of the Live Oak Public Libraries in Savannah, Georgia. It originally opened...
Carnegie Library, Mound Bayou, Mississippi (1910-1935)
Constructed in 1910 with a grant from Andrew Carnegie’s library development program, the Carnegie Library of Mound Bayou, Mississippi was the first free...
