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Hallie Beachem Brooks Quotes

1907–1985 United States

Hallie Beachem Brooks (1907–1985) was a prominent African-American librarian, educator, and academic who worked to advance literacy and educational opportunities for African-Americans. She was a Professor of Library Science at Atlanta University, published numerous book reviews, and mentored African-American library students.

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Whatever correspondence comes to the school for William Thrash will be forwarded to him.

Letter from Hallie Beachem Brooks to Hale A. Woodruff (1943)

A little book burning in the back yard somewhere.

It occurred to me that you might want to look into the possibility of interesting him in an art career.

Mr. Lampkin said that he would be glad to see to it that whatever correspondence comes to the school for William Thrash will be forwarded to him.

Lovers of Freedom Will Be Free.

The boy evidently has some talent and it occurred to me that you might want to look into the possibility of interesting him in an art career.

This very excellent likeness had been done by a former student, William Thrash.

Libraries had become dumping grounds for old junk that somebody didn’t want any more … books that children couldn’t read.

I remarked about a charcoal sketch that had been made of Mr. F. R. Lampkin, the principal of the school.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hallie Beachem Brooks (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.