It's only a matter of time...
07.02.2025 12:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It's only a matter of time...
07.02.2025 12:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dorothy Porter in 1939, at her desk in the Carnegie Library at Howard University. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Manuscript Division, Howard University
Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵