In 1875 The Supreme Court overturned the Civil Rights Act, and when segregation and racism rose to new heights and there were threats of lynching young children, Belle’s mother decided living life as a Black family was too dangerous, and in order to be treated with equality, she decided she and the children would live their lives as white people. Greener, the first Black man to graduate from Harvard University, and her mother, Genevieve Ida Fleet, a well educated Black woman. The Personal Librarian is one of those books everyone seems to learn from and love and I think it is an historical fiction must read! Belle de Costa Greene was a light skinned Black woman raised by her father, Richard T.
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