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  • Finalizing Article Topic: Jean Blackwell Hutson
  • Father: commission merchant.
  • At 4 she moved to Baltimore, Maryland with her mother while her father stayed home (Florida)
  • Loved black history because of W.E.B. Debois' daughter as her teacher along with May Miller
  • Made friends with Eubie Blake
  • Studied psychiatry but switched due to the Great Depression at Barnard (second black female student)
  • MA from the Colombia School of Library Service and teaching certificate in 1941
  • NY public librarian from 1939-1939
  • adopted daughter in 1957 (with current husband)
  • Associate adjunct professor in the history department of City College of New York, taught black history
  • 1964-1965 spent at University at Ghana
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  • 1964-1965 spent at University at Ghana, invited by Kwame Nkrumah to assist in the development in the African Collection
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  • Wrote short stories and introductions for many books
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  • Jean grew the Schomburg Collection from 15,000 volumes to 75,000 volumes growing the collection in the African diaspora
  • 1962: she oversaw the publication of the collection's catalog
  • 1972: the collection became one of the research libraries in the New York Public Library
  • she established the Schomburg Corporation: nonprofit to raise money for construction
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  • she made friends with Langston Huges (he introduced her to all major artists in NYC of the Harlem Renaissance)
  • 1939: married Andy Razaf (famous songwriter), marriage ended in 1947
  • 1942: married John Hutson, died in 1957
  • her career in Schomburg (1948) started as a draft for her to keep the "Negroes quiet" for 6 months
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  1. ^ "Hutson, Jean (née Blackwell) 9/7/1914–2/3/1998". Gale Virtual Reference Library.
  2. ^ Easterbrook, David. "Cambridge Core: Jean Blackwell Hutson".
  3. ^ Howard, Sharon. "Oxford African American Studies Center: Jean Blackwell Hutson".
  4. ^ Farrell, Robert. "Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture". Oxford African American Studies Center.
  5. ^ BOYD, HERB (1/28/2016). "The Schomburg's indomitable Jean Blackwell Hutson". New York Amsterdam New. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)