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Daniel Alexander Payne Murray (1852–1925) was an American bibliographer, author, politician, and historian. He also worked as an assistant librarian at the Library of Congress . [1]
A pioneering African American bibliographer and historian, Daniel Alexander Payne Murray spent 51 years (1871-1922) working at the Library of Congress, leaving a legacy of rare and important literary materials that document the lives and accomplishments of African Americans. He believed that "the true test of the progress of a people is to be found in their literature." An agent of change in a ...
T1 - Daniel Alexander Payne Murray (1852-1925), forgotten librarian, bibliographer, and historian. AU - Walker, Billie E. PY - 2005. Y1 - 2005. N2 - Daniel Murray, well-known librarian, bibliographer, and historian, was one of the first Afro-Americans to work as a librarian at the Library of Congress in 1871.
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Feb 16, 2021 · Courtesy of Library of Congress; Daniel Alexander Payne Murray to Calvin A. Frye, December 23, 1885, 947.93.045; Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne, and Daniel Murray Collection. Murray’s Historical and Biographical Encyclopedia of the Colored Race Throughout the World: Its Progress and Achievements from the Earliest Period Down to the Present ...
To learn more, watch the webcast The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray & the Story of a Forgotten Era. The story of Daniel Alexander Payne Murray and the rise and fall of America's black upper class during the latter quarter of the 19th Century is the subject of a new book by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, "The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray ...
Feb 7, 2017 · Daniel Alexander Payne Murray (1852-1925) was only the second African American to work at the Library of Congress when he joined the staff in 1871; 10 years later he became assistant librarian, a position he held for 41 years. Murray bequeathed his papers to the Library upon his death in 1925.The story of Murray and the rise and fall of America’s black upper class of that time in U.S ...
Abstract Employed at the Library of Congress for more than a half century (1871–1923), Daniel Alexander Payne Murray (1852–1925) was the institution’s first African American professional. His life and work engage four themes in African American history. First, Murray and his network of public intellectuals debated the most pressing social, political, and cultural issues of the time ...
