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Chapters 1-7
· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Benedict, Marie, and Murray, Victoria Christopher. The Personal Librarian. Berkley, 2021. Hardcover.
· The word “colored” is used to refer to Blacks as the characters refer to themselves and others who are African-American.
· In Chapter 1, it is November 28, 1905, in Princeton, New Jersey.
· Belle da Costa Greene is hurrying across the Princeton University campus to her job at the library.
· She is late, but her mother Genevieve has always told her that ladies never run and to never draw attention to herself.
· She has a room in the family house of fellow librarians and she takes her meals with the family.
· She cannot afford the 60-cent fare on the train to go home to New York City, but she sends money home to her mother and siblings.
· It has been five years since she came to...
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