60 BCALA NEWS Volume 41, Issue 3


Summer 2014


learn about their neighbors from diverse countries in the 115th Street and Washington Heights libraries. She also had dancers, pianist Phillipa Schuyler, and poet Langston Hughes accompanied by a piano, perform at her libraries. During the Harlem Renaissance she helped to organize the ‘‘North Community Forum” where scholars and activists such as Du Bois, Hubert Harrison, anthropologist Franz Boas, and birth control advocate Margaret Sanger spoke. And she was active in two civic organizations, one devoted to helping African American people and the other to helping women.


J.A.: Who should add your new title to their collection?


E.W.: I think that anyone interested in American library history, 20th century American history, women’s studies, African American studies, and the Harlem Renaissance would find something of interest in this book.


J.A.: Anything else you’d like to add?


E.W.: I am so happy and proud to have produced this book, not just for me, but really for Regina Anderson Andrews. She donated her archives and nearly 2,000 personal and professional photographs to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture for a reason. She wanted her story to be told.


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