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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
 * 1964-1965 spent at University at Ghana, invited by Kwame Nkrumah to assist in the development in the African Collection
 * Wrote short stories and introductions for many books
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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