Here for your enjoyment is Mark Carl Rom’s latest addition to his project, Profiles from America’s Public Libraries: Finding the Women Who Make Them. You can find all of Rom’s submissions to News & Notes at: https://lhrt.news/profiles-from-americas-libraries-finding-the-women-who-make-them/
Celeste Hatcher and the Carnegie Colored Public Library
“Celeste Hatcher, born in 1905 as the youngest of eight children from the tiny town of
Graniteville, South Carolina, served as the director of the Carnegie Colored Public
Library in Savannah. In her 50 years of ALA membership, she worked to build a
collection of books by and about the Black experience at that library, and guided it
through the period of library integration. After she died in 1998, the reading room in
Savannah’s Dixon Park Library was named in her honor.”