Reminiscences of Miriam Matthews : oral history, 1977.

Biographical Note

Librarian

Scope and Contents

Family background and early life; University of California, BA 1926, University of Chicago Graduate Library School, MA 1945; librarian Los Angeles Public Library system, 1927-1949, regional librarian, 1949-1960; memberships, commissions and professional associations; effect of prejudice on career and personal life, especially during World War I, World War II and McCarthy era; foreign travel

Subjects

• African American librarians--Interviews.
• African Americans--Segregation.
• African Americans--Social conditions.
• African American women librarians--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Libraries.
• Matthews, Miriam.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Roberts, Eleanor, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr

Access Conditions

Copyright by narrator and Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College