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Dorothy B. Porter

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  • A portrait of David Ruggles, who opened the first black-owned bookstore in America, between two white men.

    The First Black-Owned Bookstore and the Fight for Freedom

    Black abolitionist David Ruggles opened the first Black-owned bookstore in 1834, pointing the way to freedom—in more ways than one.
    by Vickie Cox Edmondson, Dorothy B. Porter, Ashawnta Jackson, Archie B. Caroll via JSTOR Daily on July 10, 2020
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Howard University librarian Dorothy Porter with a student in the 1950s.

Cataloging Black Knowledge

How Dorothy Porter assembled and organized a premier Africana research collection.
by Zita Cristina Nunes via Perspectives on History on November 20, 2018
Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History by Laura E. Helton.

Black Archives, Not Archives of Blackness

On Laura Helton’s “Scattered and Fugitive Things.”
by Dorothy Berry via Los Angeles Review of Books on April 22, 2024
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