The Negro Branch of the Carnegie Library of Nashville (Nashville, Tennessee)

In 1916, the Carnegie Library of Nashville (now the Nashville Public Library) opened the Negro Branch of the Carnegie Library of Nashville.  It was built with a gift of $25,000 from Andrew Carnegie and remained in operation until 1949. Marion M. Hadley was the branch's first librarian. Other librarians to serve at the Negro Branch were Olivia Carr, Olivia Greenway, Hattie Watkins, and Ophelia Lockhart.

See related posts: The Free Colored Carnegie Branch of the Lawson McGhee Library (Knoxville, Tennessee) ; The Colored School Department of the Cossitt Library (Memphis, Tennessee); and The Howard Branch of the Chattanooga Public Library (Chattanooga, Tennessee).

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