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Dorothy Porter Wesley

(Wesley, Dorothy Porter, 1905-1995)

Photograph shows Dorothy B. Porter, an African American librarian and curator at Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University, probably at the Library of Congress.

Dorothy Louise Porter Wesley (May 25, 1905 – December 17, 1995) was a librarian, bibliographer and curator, who built the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University into a world-class research collection. She was the first African American to receive a library science degree from the Columbia University School of Library Service. Porter published numerous bibliographies on African American history. When she realized that the Dewey Decimal System had only two classification numbers for African Americans, one for slavery and one for colonization, she created a new classification system that ordered books by genre and author. (From Wikipedia)

More about Dorothy Porter Wesley:

Associated author:

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938

Books by Dorothy Porter Wesley:

Wesley, Dorothy Porter, 1905-1995: The Negro in the United States: A Selected Bibliography (Washington: Library of Congress, 1970)
- Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
- multiple formats at archive.org
Wesley, Dorothy Porter, 1905-1995: North American Negro Poets: A Bibliographical Checklist of Their Writings, 1760-1944 (Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1945), contrib. by Arthur Alfonso Schomburg (page images at HathiTrust)

Additional books by Dorothy Porter Wesley in the extended shelves:

Wesley, Dorothy Porter, 1905-1995: Alexander Crummell : an apostle of Negro culture (Washington, D.C. : The Academy, 1920., 1920), also by William Henry Ferris, Carter Godwin Woodson, Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, and Howard University. Libraries (page images at HathiTrust)
Wesley, Dorothy Porter, 1905-1995: Howard University Masters' theses submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the master's degree at Howard University, 1918-1945 (Washington, 1946), also by Howard University. Graduate School (page images at HathiTrust)
Wesley, Dorothy Porter, 1905-1995: Racial integrity : a plea for the establishment of a chair of Negro history in our schools and colleges, etc. ([New York?] : A. V. Bernier, [1913?], 1913), also by Arthur Alfonso Schomburg, Carter Godwin Woodson, C. Glenn Carrington, Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, and Cheney Institute (page images at HathiTrust)

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