On this day in 1994, President Bill Clinton awarded Dorothy Porter Wesley the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Charles Frankel Award.
by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today October 24, 2023 Oct. 24, 1994 Dorothy Porter Wesley President Bill Clinton awarded Dorothy Porter Wesley the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Charles Frankel Award for her service as a Black librarian, bibliographer, researcher and curator. The first Black woman to complete her graduate studies at Columbia University, she joined the Howard University library staff in 1928.
Sometimes it meant being there just after the funeral director took out the bodies and saying, ‘You want all this junk in the basement?’” Before she died in 1995 at the age of 91, Howard named the reading room in its library after her, and historian Benjamin Quarles declared, “Without exaggeration, there hasn’t been a major black history book in the last 30 years in which the author hasn’t acknowledged Mrs. Porter’s help.
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