Mondays at Beinecke returns, virtually! Mondays at 4:00 pm during the academic year, all are cordially invited to gallery talks, online for now, with Beinecke Library staff, researchers, and friends.
Monday, October 5, 4 pm: Beinecke Library Director Edwin C. Schroeder will speak about the Dorothy Porter Wesley Papers. Zoom registration required: https://bit.ly/2Eu6vcG
Dorothy Burnett Porter Wesley (1905-1995) librarian, curator and bibliophile, was born in Warrenton, Virginia. After graduation from Howard University in 1928, Wesley began work as a full-time librarian at Howard University. In 1930, Wesley began work as curator of the Moorland Foundation,now known as the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, at Howard University and worked to build collections documenting the African diaspora until her retirement in 1973. Under Wesley’s administration, the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center became a world-renowned institution for the history and culture of people of African descent. After retirement, Wesley worked as a consultant for Radcliffe University’s Black Women Oral History Archive and authored several articles and books pertaining to librarianship and the African diaspora.
The Dorothy Porter Wesley Papers, JWJ MSS 93 total 190 linear feet (350 boxes) of correspondence, writings, biographical materials, research files, photographs, and personal papers.