The Librarian at the Nexus of the Harlem Renaissance

Many many thanks to Ingrid for always finding such cool links for our blog. Check out this piece on Regina Anderson, a librarian who was crucial to the Harlem Renaissance: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/harlem-renaissance-librarian-regina-anderson

You can also find a book about her accomplishments here: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/35qfd6cg9780252038501.html

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Mollie Taylor Stevenson

It's Women's History Month and rodeo season here in Houston, so it's a great time to commemorate Mollie Taylor Stevenson, Sr. and her daughter, Mollie Taylor Stevenson, Jr. Both ladies were the first living Black Americans to be inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in 2001.

Read more about the legacy of the Stevenson family and their historic Houston ranch here: http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/native-texan/article/Historic-ranch-lies-in-Houston-s-shadow-4638390.php


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Black Women Mathematicians at NASA

Dear Gregory Staff,

Ms. Tracey King has located a feature in Smithsonian Magazine about the upcoming film, Hidden Figures, which tells the inspiring story of the Black female NASA mathematicians who helped astronauts get to space in the 1960s. Check it out below.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/forgotten-black-women-mathematicians-who-helped-win-wars-and-send-astronauts-space-180960393/?no-ist

The movie is based on Margot Lee Shetterly's book of the same title.

For a related archival perspective, you might want to check out Executive Order 8802 from NARA's "Our Documents" online project here: https://ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=72

Hidden Figures is set to premiere in January, right in time for MLK Day. Might be a good opportunity for a team-building excursion, hmm? :-)

Have a great week!

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Preserving the Estate of Madame CJ Walker

Happy Monday!

Here is an interesting piece of preservation news that brings attention to the importance of caring for properties and artifacts related to Black History.

http://heragenda.com/the-modern-effort-to-preserve-the-legacy-estate-of-americas-first-female-self-made-millionaire-madam-cj-walker/

Have a great week, Gregory School staff!

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