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"The year I finished high school there was a failure of banks all over the country as we were moving into a very heavy depression... I wrote to

—Dr. Virginia Lacy Jones
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Virginia Lacy Jones in Office, circa 1975


"...the women in my family were strong women, and I identified with them... I never had a feeling that being a woman was a barrier in anything I wanted to do."
—Dr. Virginia Lacy Jones
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Virginia Lacy Jones at a Library School Event, circa 1956
image source: Atlanta University Center
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>>Interview with Dean Virginia Lacy Jones
>>Dr. Jones & the Power of Public Libraries
>>Virginia Lacy Jones Papers
>>Black Woman Oral History Project Reel #1
>>Black Woman Oral History Project Reel #2


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