Publications and Other Resources

Journal Articles

Griffis, M. R. (2017). A Separate Space: Remembering Meridian’s Segregated Carnegie Library, 1913-74. Mississippi Libraries, 80(3), pp. 39-49.

Griffis, M. R. (2017). New Online Archive on Racially Segregated Libraries. Africology: The Journal of Pan-African Studies, 10(2), pp. 277-293.

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Conference Presentations

Griffis, M. R. (2018). Separate Places, Shared Spaces: Segregated Carnegie Libraries as Community Institutions in the Age of Jim Crow. Southern Historical Association 84th Annual Meeting, Birmingham, AL, November 8-11.

Arlitsch, K., Gibson, A., Griffis, M. R., Punzalan, R., and Yakel, E. (2018). News You Can Use: Highlights of IMLS-Funded Research and Early Career Development Projects. American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, June 21-26.

Griffis, M. R. (2017). Making Voices Heard: Collecting and Sharing Oral Histories from Users of Segregated Libraries in the South. Oral History Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, October 4-7.

Griffis, M. R. (2017). Buildings and Books: Segregated Libraries as Places for Community-Making, Interaction and Learning In the Age of Jim Crow. Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) Annual Conference, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, June 9-13.

Griffis, M. R. (2017). Capturing Their Stories: Collecting Oral Histories from Users of Segregated Libraries in the South. Southern History of Education Society Annual Meeting, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, March 10-11.

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Public Lectures

Griffis, M. R. (2018). A Cornerstone of Community: Houston's ‘Colored Library,’ 1913 to 1961. 2018 Donor Appreciation Day, African American Library at the Gregory School, Houston Public Library, Houston, TX, June 2.

Griffis, M. R. (2018). Cornerstones of Community: Segregated Public Libraries and Carnegie Philanthropy. Speaker Series, African American Library at the Gregory School, Houston Public Library, Houston, TX, April 12.

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Toolkit

The Roots of Community: A Local Librarian’s Guide for Discovering, Documenting and Sharing the History of Library Services to African Americans in Their Community

Intended for current library professionals, this toolkit provides a theoretical basis for completing public history projects about libraries and explores specific project types, selected best practices and related resources.

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Monograph

Separate Places, Shared Spaces: Carnegie Libraries as Spaces of Community and Learning for African Americans [Currently under revision; new version forthcoming.]

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External Resources

The following list is intended to help connect researchers to academic resources, institutions, organizations, and associations related to the project’s subject. Please direct any questions about these resources to the appropriate institution. Archival and special collections related to each specific case library appear on this site’s Library Profiles and Resources page.

This list was derived from resources the Project Director used for research purposes. It does not advertise any services related to these or other organizations. Please do not contact the Project Director to request that your organization be listed here.

African American Historical Association (AAHS)
Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)
Blackpast.org: Remembered and Reclaimed
>African American History
>Global African History
Columbia University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
>Carnegie Corporation of New Your Records (1872-2015)
>Carnegie Corporation Oral History Project
Internet Archive
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
>African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition
>Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscape Survey Collection
Little-Known Black Librarian Facts, 4th ed. (2013) by Michele T. Fenton
Martin Luther King Research and Education Institute at Stanford University
Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University
New York Public Library Special Collections
>Manuscripts and Archives Division
>Miriam and Ira D Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs
>Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture