Creator
Lee, Mollie Huston

Date of Original
1907/1982

Subject
African American librarians--North Carolina--Wake County
Richard B. Harrison Library (Raleigh, N.C.)--History
Civil rights movements--North Carolina--Raleigh
Boycotts--North Carolina--Raleigh
Sit-ins--North Carolina--Raleigh
African Americans and libraries--North Carolina--Raleigh--History--20th century
African Americans--Civil rights--North Carolina--Raleigh--History--20th century

People
Lee, Mollie Huston
Harrison, Richard B.

Location
United States, North Carolina, Wake County, Raleigh, 35.7721, -78.63861

Medium
photographs
clippings (information artifacts)
fliers (printed matter)

Type
StillImage, Text

Description
Selections from the Mollie Huston Lee Collection. Lee was the first African America librarian in Wake County, North Carolina and founder of Raleigh's Richard B. Harrison Library. Lee started and maintained a collection chronicling the African American experience both locally and nationally. The collection has grown to over 5,000 volumes, composed of both adult and juvenile fiction and nonfiction, serials, pamphlets, and vertical file materials. The vertical file collection has a special focus on documenting the lives of African Americans in Raleigh communities. The online collection consists of biographical information about Lee and African American actor Richard B. Harrison, for whom the library is named. The selections include flyers and clippings related to the 1960 boycotts and sit-ins in Raleigh as well as documents about the library's history.

Metadata URL
https://www.wakegov.com/mollie-huston-lee-collection

Contributing Institution
Richard B. Harrison Library (Raleigh, N.C.)

Rights