Mayme Agnew Clayton

Mayme Agnew Clayton was a librarian, and the founder, president, and leader of the Western States Black Research and Education Center (WSBREC), the largest privately held collection of African-American historical materials in the world. The collection represents the core holdings of the Mayme A. Clayton Library and Museum (MCLM), formerly located in Culver City, California. This collection was curated and managed by her son, Avery Clayton. The museum is the largest and most academically substantial independently held collection of objects, documents, and memorabilia on African American history and culture. On July 31, 2019, the Mayme A. Clayton Library and Museum closed permanently. The bulk of its collections went to the West Los Angeles College in unincorporated Los Angeles County on a temporary basis.

4 August 1922

Born on the same birth date (4 August 1922): Luis Aponte Martínez

Born on the same birth day (4 August): Allison Hedge Coke • Daniella van Graas • Eugen Schuhmacher • Leon Camier • Mark Milligan • Michel Déon

Born in the same month (August 1922): Al Alberts • Alain Robbe-Grillet • Albert Irvin • Chuck Gilmur • Ernie Freeman • Gertrude Himmelfarb • Giorgos Mouzakis • James Casey (variety artist) • Jean Darling • John Miles (baseball) • L. Tom Perry • Leonard Baskin • Lionel Murphy • Miloš Jakeš • Nazik Al-Malaika • René Lévesque • Roelof Kruisinga • Rory Calhoun • Rudi Gernreich • Sabino Barinaga • Theoni V. Aldredge