1940-50s
1960-70s
1980-1990s
Dorothy Porter
In the 1940s, the Dewey Decimal System had one category—325.26—for any book (at all) written by a Black person. Ms. Porter said no way.
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She was young once:
At 18, Dorothy was a public high school student in Montclair, NJ, where she and 4 siblings lived with their father (a physician) and mother Bertha Ball Burnett (a tennis champ!)
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Occupation:
Librarian & curator at Howard University
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Image credit:
©1951 by Van Vechten Trust. Used with permission. From Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
