| LC control no. | n 50024748 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Wesley, Dorothy Porter, 1905-1995 |
| Variant(s) | Burnett, Dorothy Louise, 1905-1995 Porter, Dorothy, 1905-1995 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1905-05-25 |
| Death date | 1995-12-17 |
| Place of birth | Warrenton (Va.) |
| Place of death | Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) |
| Affiliation | Moorland-Spingarn Research Center Columbia University Howard University |
| Profession or occupation | Librarians Historians Archivists |
| Found in | U.S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. (Dept. of Commerce). A selected list of books by ... the Negro ... 1936. Her The Negro in the United States, 1999: t.p. (Dorothy B. Porter) NUCMC data from Dorothy Porter Wesley Research Center, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., for Her Collection, [18--]-[19--] (Dorothy Porter Wesley (1905-1995) curator emerita, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, 1929-1973) Dorothy Porter Wesley Research Center internet site, Nov. 30, 1999 (Dorothy Porter Wesley; b. Dorothy Louise Burnett in Warrenton, Va., May 25, 1905, she was raised in Montclair, N.J.; 1st husband: James Amos Porter (1905-1970) was an African American educator, lecturer, painter, administrator, critic, and advisor; 2nd husband: Charles Harris Wesley (1891-1987), the noted African American historian, educator, writer, and author of twelve books) Notable black American women, 1992 (Dorothy Porter (1905- ); library curator, librarian; Dorothy Porter Wesley) African American National Biography, accessed September 20, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Wesley, Dorothy Porter; Dorothy Louise Burnett, Wesley, Dorothy Burnett Porter; librarian, historian, archivist; born 25 May 1905 in Warrenton, Virginia, United States; librarian at Miner Teachers College (1925-1926); Artium Baccalauei from Howard University (1930); BS degree, Columbia University School of Library Service (1931); master's of library science from Columbia University (1932); joined the library staff at Howard University (1928), appointed to administer and organize a Library of Negro Life and History from a small collection of three thousand titles which grew to nearly 200,000 items by her retirement in 1973, when it became known as the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center; she became curator emeritus; President Clinton presented her with the National Endowment for the Humanities Charles Frankel Award (1994); died 17 December 1995 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States) |
| Associated language | eng |
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