Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
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So we can look at Housewives and Radical Feminists side by side - maybe not a bad idea
FYI, there's a blog for cataloging in Dewey that talks about changes and proposals. It's neat if you like granular info.
Porter was a powerhouse.
"She was key to building up what is now the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center as one of the world's best collection of library materials for Black/Africana history and culture."
As a Howard University librarian, she worked relentlessly to classify work within the collection by genre & author. 🧵
She is a librarian, she is a pioneer. She had an extraordinary 43-year library career.
Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜
Thank you for sharing this wonderful thread!
Dorothy Porter. 💜
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Thank you for sharing! 💙
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people created the math system ,India I believe created fractions also the first Doctor,
professor taught medicine around the time of Marco poll taught first medicine in.italy
the university of Venice if remember correctly..the first medicine ever taught in Europe to save lives
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The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Whites still blind to why our Racism damages people.