@article{123406,
  author = {Steven A. Knowlton},
  title = {The Foundation of Cossitt Library and the Inauguration of Library Service to African Americans in Memphis and Shelby County},
  abstract = { <p>
	The quasi-public library of Memphis, the Cossitt Library, was founded as a philanthropic institution in 1888. The first branch that served African Americans was established within the walls of the LeMoyne Institute. Later, service was extended through another branch in Howe Institute{\textemdash}which was later closed{\textemdash}and then a standalone branch that moved several times in the 1930s before settling on a plot on Vance Avenue.~ The discrepancy between funding and services offered to African American and white Memphians both shaped and was shaped by the strictures of Jim Crow segregation in the South.
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 },
  year = {2018},
  journal = {West Tennessee Historical Society Papers},
  volume = {71},
  pages = {38-64},
  language = {eng},
}