Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History

8.7 / 10

open now, until 20:00 (closes in 29 min)

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The Auburn Avenue Research Library is the first public library in the Southeast to offer specialized reference and archival collections dedicated to the study and research of African American culture and history and of the African diaspora. Decades before the Auburn Avenue Research Library opened, its core collection was formed at the Auburn Branch of the Carnegie Library of Atlanta. Read more The one-story red-brick building, located at 333 Auburn Avenue, officially opened July 25, 1921, becoming Atlanta's first public library branch for African Americans. Before then, black citizens were excluded under the era's Jim Crow laws from public library service in the city, which began in 1902. In the book Living Atlanta: An Oral History of the City, 1914-1948 (1990) Homer Nash, a black physician whose practice was on Auburn Avenue, recalled the period before the branch opened as a time when African Americans "had such a hard time getting books." From 1921 until the branch closed in 1959, numerous women of color managed and administered the facility and provided educational and community programming. Among them were Alice Dugged Cary and Annie L. McPheeters, who was responsible for much of the development of the core collection, known as the Negro History Collection, in size and significance. A special, noncirculating collection, it was formally organized in 1934, the same year McPheeters was appointed assistant librarian. The Negro History Collection comprised the volumes owned by the Auburn Branch in combination with titles acquired through an adult education project sponsored by the American Association of Adult Education, the American Library Association, and the Julius Rosenwald Fund. Later, a group of children's books—named for Arna Bontemps, a noted Harlem Renaissance writer who became a children's book author and librarian—were added. From the mid-1930s to the late 1940s the collection grew to include bound copies of magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journals by, for, and about African Americans, including the Atlanta Daily World, Crisis, Journal of Negro Education, and Negro History Bulletin. During the same period, increasing numbers of African Americans migrated to Atlanta's west side. Accompanying this growth were residents' demands for expanded public library service. In response, the city allocated funds for the construction of another Update description

Address:

101 Auburn Ave NE
Atlanta

Telephone:

(404) 613-4001

Web site:

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Opening hours:

Monday: 10:00-20:00

Tuesday: 10:00-20:00

Wednesday: 10:00-18:00

Thursday: 10:00-18:00

Friday: 10:00-18:00

Saturday: 10:00-18:00

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Angela R. 2016-11-21

I absolutely love the new space. The Auburn Avenue Research Library is one of Atlanta's treasures that few people in this city visit. I do hope that...

Claudia S. 2016-10-26

A beautiful space that everyone in Atlanta should visit, at least once. The programming is excellent, the artwork is amazing and the staff is...

Cedric S. 2016-09-08

It's a great place at a great location. I looking forward to this evening

Jackay R. 2014-05-21

I DO LIKE WHAT I SEE WILL VISIT TO TAKE A CLOSER LOOK THANKS FOR THE FRIEND SHIP LOOKING FORWARD TO THE FUTURE.

Michael A. 2014-02-24

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Will E P. 2013-06-19

I had a great time at this place it has alot of history and I will return again

Updates from Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History

Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and H. 2017-06-03
Now available in AARL collection

Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and H. 2017-05-19
Lorraine Hansberry books at Auburn: Lorraine Hansberry speaks out art and the Black revolution - CAS 305.896 HANSBERRY Les blancs: the collected last plays of Lorraine Hansberry. - WR 812 HANSBERRY In search of a model for African-American drama : a s

Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and H. 2017-05-19
Books on Malcolm X at Auburn: Fighting for our place in the sun : Malcolm X and the radicalization of the Black student movement, 1960-1973 –378.19829 BENSON The night Malcolm X spoke at the Oxford Union : a transatlantic story of antiracist protest -

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