World Library Foundation Newsletter Dept.
2021
The World Library Foundation's newsletter for February 2021 (Volume 5, Issue 2). The Poet of Boston: for Black History Month, which began as Carter G. Woodson's Negro History Week in 1926, the story of Phillis Wheatley, carried from West Africa to Boston as a child, whose Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, published in London in 1773 with an attestation signed by eighteen Boston men, made her the first African American to publish a book of poetry. Also in this issue: the Executive Director's message, "Voices Worth Hearing"; Elizabeth Blackwell at 200, on the first woman to receive a medical degree from an American medical school, born in Bristol on February 3, 1821; and from the Library Exhibits, The Viking Sagas.
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