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=Miriam Matthews (1905-2003)=

In 1927, Miriam Matthews "became the first black professional librarian in the Los Angeles Public Library system." An expert in African American history, including in its description and preservation, Matthews is also thought to have been the first black librarian in California. In 1929, she initiated Negro History Week, which became Black History Month; she continued to serve as a resource for this celebration over the decades.

Early in her career, while working at the LAPL's (Los Angeles Public Library) Helen Hunt Jackson branch, Matthews found what she described as "a small collection of books on the Negro," a discovery that helped to instigate her own efforts to collect materials and begin researching the history and impact of African Americans in California. Matthews's efforts proved useful to her colleagues in the library world; as her colleague Binnie Tate Wilkin told the Los Angeles Times, if people wanted to find out about "early black settlers in California," for example, librarians "could come to Miriam, and she [would dig] through all of her files and her resources and [help them] to give answers."

In 1945, the Journal of Educational Sociology published a bibliography compiled by Matthews on African Americans in the American West; this Select Bibliography included citations for journal and newspaper articles, reports, conference proceedings, manuscripts (including unpublished), surveys, and other sorts of materials. Matthews indicated African American newspapers with asterisks, and included sections for "General" resources as well as for the Washington, Oregon, and California; resources for each of these sections are further subdivided into "Historical" and "Current."

A dedicated advocate, Matthews served on over 50 committees concerned with libraries, African American history, and youth; she also helped start an archive program for the City of Los Angeles (in 1979) and worked on the California Heritage Preservation Commission. For Los Angeles's biennial celebration in 1981, Matthews created a monument in El Pueblo de Los Angeles State Historic Park that listed the city's founders, who included 26 African Americans, 16 Native Americans, and 2 Anglo Americans.

Along with her advocacy as a librarian, Matthews also collected artworks by African Americans, including works by Charles White (I've Known Rivers) and Elizabeth Catlett (Glory). She loaned many of these works, which included paintings and sculptures, to many museums and institutions, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, the LAPL, the Dunbar Black Museum, and the Long Beach Art Museum.

Matthews died June 23, 2003, at the age of 97.

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