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Sunday, June 6, 2010

Vivian Harsh (1890–1960)

Described as “the historian who never wrote,” Vivian Gordon Harsh devoted her life to building one of the most important research collections on African-American history and literature in the country.
Read an article about this fascinating, talented woman at http://chicagotribute.org/Markers/Harsh.htm.

She was the first black librarian in the Chicago Public Library system.

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