About this event

The Special Collections Department at BPL will be holding an open house on Feb 28 from 2-4 pm, and will feature a unique selection of items highlighting Black voices in our collections.

Can’t make it? These items are also available for walk-in visits in the special collections reading room (Wednesday-Friday 9:30 am-4:30 pm) for the entire month of February. Click here to learn more about the Special Collections department.

• Louise Jefferson (1945), “Uprooted People of the USA” (map)
• Langston Hughes (1926), The Weary Blues (book)
• W.E.B. DuBois (1903), Souls of Black Folk (book)
• Calvin Burnett (1944), Jam Session (watercolor)
• Jack Miller (selected photographs from the collection of a local photojournalist, ca. 1930)