[Libs-Or] Women of Library History - Betty Jenkins

[Diedre Conkling]

*Our final post for Women’s History Month 2017.*
Raised on Historically Black College and University campuses (HBCUs) as
well as two years in Monrovia, Liberia by her professor and diplomat father
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 and librarian mother
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influenced by a Quaker education in Iowa, and educated at a Seven Sisters
college and an Ivy League university both in New York City, Betty Jo Lanier
Jenkins lived an outstanding librarian career that encompassed the
transitions of the United States civil rights era.

http://womenoflibraryhistory.tumblr.com/post/159040689607/betty-jenkins


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*Diedre Conkling*




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