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Eliza Atkins Gleason

Eliza Atkins Gleason
Eliza Atkins Gleason, American librarian (d. 2009)

Eliza Atkins Gleason was the first African American to receive a doctorate in Library Science at the University of Chicago Graduate Library School. In 1941, she established and became the first Dean of the School of Library Service at Atlanta University and created a library education program that trained 90 percent of all African-American librarians by 1986.

15 December 1909

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