The race to save Black history: as art collections deteriorate, preservationists struggle to save our culture

Authors :: Copage, Eric V.
Source :: Ebony. February 2008, Vol. 63 Issue 4, p116, 5 p.
Publication Year :: 2008
Abstract: For more than 40 years, Mayme Agnew Clayton, a university librarian in Los Angeles for most of her adult life, collected books, films, letters and other precious items documenting African-American [...]

Subjects :: Historic preservation -- Social aspects -- Protection and preservation
Librarians -- Collections and collecting -- Appreciation -- Protection and preservation -- Social aspects
Blacks -- History
History -- Sources
Americana -- Protection and preservation -- Social aspects
Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
General interest
Collections and collecting
Social aspects
Protection and preservation
Appreciation

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