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- Title: The Negro in the United States; a selected bibliography. Compiled by Dorothy B. Porter
- Author : Dorothy B. Porter
- Release Date : January 02, 2011
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 380 KB
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The career of Daniel Alexander Payne Murray, who served as a member of the staff in various capacities up to an assistant librarian from 1871 to 1922, is a natural starting point for a discussion of Negro materials in the Library of Congress. While serving in his first position in the Library, as a personal assistant to the Librarian, Ainsworth R. Spofford, Mr. Murray undertook the systematic study of the origin and historical growth of the colored race throughout the civilized world, which he hoped would result in an encyclopedic history of his race. Almost 30 years later, he was chosen by Herbert Putnam, then just beginning his career as Librarian, to respond to a request from Ferdinand W. Peck, Commissioner General of the United States to the Paris exposition of 1900, that a collection of books and pamphlets by Afro-American authors be made a feature of the American exhibit at the exposition.
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