Celebrating a legacy of studying…the Dunbar-Jupiter Hammon Public Library in Fort Myers is popping 50.
Lee County Library System and the neighborhood will have a good time the golden anniversary of the library on Blount Avenue Saturday, April 20.
It’s residence to one of many solely specialised collections of African American Literature in Southwest Florida.
The gathering is called after Mary Rice who together with different neighborhood members advocated for a library to be opened within the space. Their purpose was to make sure equal entry to county assets for the kids of Dunbar throughout a time when the lingering results of segregation nonetheless reverberated throughout the nation.
Opened in April 1974, the library is called after Jupiter Hammon, the primary revealed African American writer, and Paul Laurence Dunbar, the primary broadly acclaimed US African American writer and poet.
The library’s fiftieth Anniversary celebration will run from midday to three p.m. Saturday, on the library’s 3095 Blount St. website.
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