The Sylvia Gaither-Garrison Library has received some exciting new donations! Brenda Coakley has donated 15 books to our collection. Among the highlights are a first edition copy of Dr. King's Why We Can't Wait, a signed copy of To Disembark by Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and a signed copy of George Washington Williams: A Biography by preeminent historian John Hope Franklin.
Brenda Coakley is a member of the Board of Directors of the Frederick Douglass Museum and Cultural Center in Highland Beach, Maryland. Highland Beach is the site of Twin Oaks, Frederick Douglass' cottage. Construction began in 1895, but was not completed by the time of Douglass' death. Since 1995, the cottage has housed the Frederick Douglass Museum and Cultural Center.
The following are the titles of the other 12 books that Ms. Coakley donated: The World and Africa, Heart To Heart, Anti-Slavery: The Crusade for Freedom in America, Reflections in Black, My Larger Education, White Over Black, Afro-American Writing, 12 Million Black Voices, Alexander Crummell and the Creation of an African-American Church in Liberia, Repeal of the Blues, Bound With Them in Chains: A Biographical History of the Antislavery Movement, and Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement.
The staff of the Sylvia Gaither Garrison Library is grateful to Ms. Coakley for donating this wonderful collection!
Pictured: Brenda Coakley
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