131:, African Americans were denied public library services established in 1902. The Auburn branch was opened with Carnegie Corporation funds despite Carnegie's offer to fund a branch for the city's large black population as early as 1908. From the time that the library opened in 1921 until it closed in 1959 numerous African American women librarians managed the library. The two most notable among them were
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