The library is at once a sanctuary of the world’s knowledge and a canvas of a nation’s failings. Two moms are at the center of the fight against book banning in America: ‘It’s exhausting’ “I don’t want to lose it, but this is valuable space. “How often does this get requested?” said Szabo, who calculates the future in centimeters and paragraphs and recently read a book about how U.S. Founded in 1951 for those who grout tile and hang cabinets, the periodical was no match for Prince Harry’s memoir or a Stephen King novel. He stopped at a shelf holding years of “Family Handyman” magazines. He passed a slumbering homeless man and, with the efficiency of a spy, disappeared into stacks of bound archives, hundreds of thousands of relevant and obscure pages - including the 1991 “Journal of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan.”Ī tall man with sparks of gray in his goatee, Szabo, the city librarian, oversees 72 branches, a $241.8 million budget, 17,000 restaurant menus, 64 ukuleles, a Shakespeare volume from 1685, and lockers of puppets for a children’s theater. John Szabo stepped out of the elevator and walked through the sunlit atrium of the Central Library. It's reflections like this that Taylor Brooks wanted to inspire when she curated the collection.īrooks is the African American Collection and community engagement librarian at the Douglass-Truth Branch.The sparrows fled the courtyard. She said it counters some Americans' belief that we should ignore that part of our country's history. The "Black Activism in Print" exhibit spoke to that need in her eyes. And it's something that all of us need to think about and try to figure out how we reach a point where there's justice for all." I'm sure I have relatives who are the descendants of slaves as well. "I have ancestors who owned slaves in the southern part of America. "It's very much the history of white America as well as Black America," said Carr, who stumbled upon the exhibit while visiting Seattle from Philadelphia. For Carr, a white woman, the print and the exhibit broadly are about more than Black history. It's a touching rendering that, through its black and white strokes, also speaks to the stark racial divides of the time.
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