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The AAMLO is located at the Charles S. Greene building which previously was the Carnegie library.The building served as the Oakland Main Library from 1902 to 1951. [3]The AAMLO began as a private collection in 1946, and on July 2, 1965, became the East Bay Negro Historical Society (EBNHS).
The African American Museum & Library at Oakland (AAMLO) is a non-circulating library that archives historic collections and reference materials documenting the African American experience in California.
Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature at the Chicago Public Library's Woodson Regional Library [11] Louisville Western Branch Library in Louisville, Kentucky [12] African American Museum and Library at Oakland in Oakland, California [13] Gainsboro Branch Library in Roanoke, Virginia [14]
African American Historical and Cultural Museum Waterloo Iowa 1997 A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum: Chicago: Illinois: 1995 [8] Africa Center, The: New York City New York: 1984 [9] [a] African American Civil War Memorial Museum: Washington: D.C. 1999 [13] African-American Research Library and Cultural Center: Fort Lauderdale: Florida ...
During the 1950s, the area became majority African American. [7] In 1982, the East Bay Negro Historical Society (EBNHS) was invited into the Golden Gate Branch of the Oakland Public Library, making it the first Oakland city library with a predominantly African American focused collection.
After devoting nearly 40 years of his life to the library, Tuggle retired in 1996 as Middle Georgia Regional Library’s first African American head of reference. He died in 2014, but his ...
Two significant African American organizations, the African American Museum and Library (AAMLO) and the Black Panther Party, began in part in the Longfellow neighborhood. The AAMLO's predecessor, the East Bay Negro Historical Society, was founded in 1965 by residents of the Longfellow and greater North Oakland.
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