[Libs-Or] Women of Library History - Jewell Mazique

[Diedre Conkling]

Jewell R. Mazique (2 October 1913 - 18 September 2007) was an activist who
helped found the Capital Transit campaign with United Federal Workers to
integrate Washington D.C.’s bus operators.[2] [3] Mazique wrote extensively
for The Washington Afro-American newspaper on topics such as the United
Nations position on African Nations, and how black children were being
educated in DC schools.[4] She served on the National Council for the
Southern Negro Youth Congress in 1945, a group claimed to be a Communist
front organization. [5]
She was the subject of a U.S. Government Office Of War Information
documentary photo series in 1942 while she was a clerk at the Library of
Congress.[6]...

More here:
http://womenoflibraryhistory.tumblr.com/post/158157488300/jewell-mazique


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