Another Exciting Donation

The Sylvia Gaither Garrison Library (SGGL) has received another new donation, this time from Ms. Fannie Alston. Ms. Alston is the daughter of Delegate Joseph A. Chester, Sr. Ms. Alston has served for over 30 years in various professorships in Maryland, as well as working in Baltimore County Public Schools and other institutions around the country.

The collection consists of 14 pieces, and is a great addition to the SGGL. Some of the exciting peices are signed copies of Blues People and Transbluesency by Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), a signed copy of Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou, and a fine edition of Black Saga: The African American Experience by Charles M. Christian, a member of the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture.

The other pieces in the collection are Invisible Man by Ralph ellison, NAACP: Triumphs of a Pressure Group 1909-1980 by Warren St. James, Ph.D., If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin, People Talk by Dorothy C. Alves, Black Poetry published by Broadside Press and edited by Dudley Randall (first edition, second printing), The Langston Hughes Reader by George Braziller, But Not Next Door: Baltimore Neighborhoods, Inc.: The First Fourty Years by Michael L. Mark, Ideas For Black Studies: The Morgan State College Program by Walter Fisher, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years by Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth, and a program for the 40th Spingarn Medal, Awarded to Dr. Carl Murphy, NAACP's Annual Convention Atlantic City, New Jersey, June 24, 1955.

The staff of the SGGL would like to thank Ms. Fannie Alston for her wonderful donation!