Journal article
“We’re So Glad You’re Here, and We’re So Glad You’re Black”: Esther Walls’s Life and Work in Libraries and Literacy Organizations
Libraries: Culture, History, and Society, Vol.6(1), pp.149-169
03/2022
DOI: 10.5325/libraries.6.1.0149
Abstract
Esther J. Walls (1926–2008) was a Black librarian born in Mason City, Iowa, who sought social justice in her home state before making her belief in equity and literacy the touchstone of her significant career. Walls worked at the New York Public Library and other important institutions, including appointments to prominent organizations' committees and boards that recognized her deep knowledge and commitment to service. While earning her master's degree in library science from Columbia University in 1951 and for years after-ward, Walls brought Black culture into the Harlem Branch library and brought the library and its resources into the Harlem community, a then-radical act of information-sharing.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- “We’re So Glad You’re Here, and We’re So Glad You’re Black”: Esther Walls’s Life and Work in Libraries and Literacy Organizations
- Creators
- Jennifer Burek Pierce - University of Iowa, School of Library and Information ScienceErik Henderson
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Libraries: Culture, History, and Society, Vol.6(1), pp.149-169
- DOI
- 10.5325/libraries.6.1.0149
- ISSN
- 2473-0343
- eISSN
- 2473-036X
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2022 the American Library Association’s Library History Round Table. Posted with permission.
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/2022
- Academic Unit
- School of Library and Information Science; Interdisciplinary Studies Program
- Record Identifier
- 9984257830502771
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