Record ID:
55087510 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 50024748
Heading:
Birth:
  • 19050525
  • Warrenton (Va.)
Death:
  • 19951217
  • Fort Lauderdale (Fla.)
Associated with:
  • United States
Occupations:
  • Librarians Historians Archivists
Used for:
  • Burnett, Dorothy Louise, 1905-1995
  • Porter, Dorothy, 1905-1995
Notes:
  • U.S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. (Dept. of Commerce). A selected list of books by ... the Negro ... 1936.
  • Her The Negro in the United States, 1999 t.p. (Dorothy B. Porter)
  • NUCMC data from Dorothy Porter Wesley Reseach Center, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., for Her Collection, [18--]-[19--] (Dorothy Porter Wesley (1905-1995) curator emerita, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, 1929-1973)
  • Dorothy Porter Wesley Research Center internet site, Nov. 30, 1999 (Dorothy Porter Wesley; b. Dorothy Louise Burnett in Warrenton, Va., May 25, 1905, she was raised in Montclair, N.J.; 1st husband: James Amos Porter (1905-1970) was an African American educator, lecturer, painter, administrator, critic, and advisor; 2nd husband: Charles Harris Wesley (1891-1987), the noted African American historian, educator, writer, and author of twelve books)
  • Notable black American women, 1992 (Dorothy Porter (1905- ); library curator, librarian; Dorothy Porter Wesley)
  • African American National Biography, accessed September 20, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database (Wesley, Dorothy Porter; Dorothy Louise Burnett, Wesley, Dorothy Burnett Porter; librarian, historian, archivist; born 25 May 1905 in Warrenton, Virginia, United States; librarian at Miner Teachers College (1925-1926); Artium Baccalauei from Howard University (1930); BS degree, Columbia University School of Library Service (1931); master's of library science from Columbia University (1932); joined the library staff at Howard University (1928), appointed to administer and organize a Library of Negro Life and History from a small collection of three thousand titles which grew to nearly 200,000 items by her retirement in 1973, when it became known as the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center; she became curator emeritus; President Clinton presented her with the National Endowment for the Humanities Charles Frankel Award (1994); died 17 December 1995 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States)
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)904889
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng DLC rda DLC MoSU-L DLC DLC DHU-MS