In Kentucky, the oldest Black independent library is still making history The Christian Science Monitor
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Natalie Woods remembers the Rev. Thomas Fountain Blue’s cursive handwriting. The first time the librarian held his papers, they changed her life.
Ms. Woods never learned about Western Library’s history when she grew up in Louisville, Kentucky.
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At the Monitor, we love a good library story. And Western Library in Louisville, Kentucky, has a great one to tell.
