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Article: Lifting their voices Collection celebrates famous and obscure black writers
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 31, 1999
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"O black and unknown bards. . ."
Robert A. Bellinger, director of the Collection of African
American Literature at Suffolk University, slowly repeated the phrase
from a James Weldon Johnson poem with reverence. Surrounded by the
works of some of the most celebrated black writers: W. E. B Dubois,
Booker T. Washington, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Langston Hughes, he
seemed pleased with the collection's long tradition of bringing the
writings of these authors as well as of those less well known to
Suffolk's Mildred F. Sawyer Library where they could be read and
appreciated.
Yet outside of the Beacon Hill university, the collection remains
a hidden gem. Its volumes, sprinkled throughout the Sawyer ...