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","She graduated from Miner Normal School, Washington D.C. in 1925 with the intention of becoming a teacher. Wesley worked as a library assistant in the Miner Normal School library where she worked with librarian Lula V. Allan (1879-1968) who encouraged her to pursue a career in library science. Wesley enrolled in Howard University in 1926 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1928. She then enrolled at Colombia University's School of Library Science where she received a Master's in Library Science in 1931. ","In 1929 Dorothy married artist and art history professor James Amos Porter (1905-1970) with whom she had her only daughter, Constance \"Coni\" Porter Uzelac (1939-2012). James A. Porter graduated with honors from Howard University in 1927 and began teaching art there the next semester. His classic book and standard reference work,  Modern Negro Art , proved to be one of the most informative sources to date on the creativity of the Black artists.","In 1930, Dorothy Porter began work as curator of the Moorland Foundation at Howard University, (now known as the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center) and worked to build the library's collections documenting African, African American, Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Hispanic history and culture. After becoming the Curator at Howard University in 1930, started thinking about how to catalog books by Black authors and related to Black history and culture. At the time, she recognized that the Dewey Decimal System only had two numbers (for \"Slavery\" and for \"Colonization\") under which all works related to Black people or Black authors could be cataloged. In response, during the first few years of her Curatorship, she created a new classification system that reflected the true breadth of the books available on topics related to Black people and by Black authors. She disseminated the classification system to other libraries, and published it in 1939. Porter worked at the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center until her retirement in 1973.","James Porter's died in 1970, and in 1979 Dorothy married Charles Harris Wesley (1891-1987), a noted historian, educator, and author. After receiving his master's degree from Yale University in 1913, he taught at Howard University from 1913 until 1942. Between 1920 and 1925, he also earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University, the fourth African American to do so. He served as President of Wilberforce University from 1942-1947 and of Central State College, Ohio from 1947 until 1965. ","Charles Harris Wesley authored more than 15 books on African-American history over the course of his career. His first book, Negro Labor in the United States, was hailed as one of the most useful works on the role of African-Americans in industry available in the 1920s. Dorothy worked with Charles on a variety of research projects even prior to their marriage, and continued to do so until Charles's death in 1987. ","After her retirement from Howard University in 1973, Dorothy Porter Wesley worked as a consultant for a variety of institutions and foundations such as the Radcliffe University's Black Women Oral History Archive. She also continued to write articles and books.","In 1994 President Bill Clinton presented her with the National Endowment for the Humanities' Charles Frankel Award. Dorothy Porter Wesley died in Broward County, Florida in 1995.","The book  William Cooper Nell, Nineteenth-Century African American Abolitionist, Historian, Integrationist: Selected Writings 1832-1874  (2002) was the last research project that Charles and Dorothy worked on together, and was posthumously published by Dorothy's daughter, Constance Porter Uzelac. Uzelac worked as a medical librarian. After her mother's death, she became the Executive Director of the Dorothy Porter Wesley Archive and managed James A. Porter's art collection.","In 2000, Constance Uzelac worked with the Bienes Museum of the Modern Book, James Findlay, on an exhibition of her mother's collection that was displayed at the Broward County Main Library in February and March of 2001. Samuel F. Morrison, Director of the Broward County Library, was instrumental in bringing the collection to exhibition at the Bienes, and would further encourage the purchase of the materials from Uzelac for the newly-opened AARLCC Special Collections in December 2002. Constance later worked at Broward County Library, cataloging a portion of the Dorothy Porter Wesley Collection at the AARLCC Special Collections. Constance married Milan Uzelac in 1965. They had no children. She died in Broward County in 2012.","This collection received file level processing. This finding aid may be updated to reflect new descriptions as well as acquisitions to the collection.","Part of Dorothy Porter Wesley's papers also reside at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository at Yale University. Citation: Dorothy Porter Wesley Papers. James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.","Dorothy Porter Wesley's papers can also be found within the James A. Porter papers at Emory University. Citation: James A. Porter papers, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University.","The Dorothy Porter Wesley Collection documents the professional and personal life of librarian and bibliophile, Dorothy Porter Wesley. It contains manuscript materials, artwork, newspaper clippings, research files, photographs, awards and correspondence dating from 1905 to 2012 as well as Wesley's personal library of more than 2,800 books, pamphlets, and audio recordings dating from 1788 to 1995.","Correspondence covers her participation in professional and national organizations such as the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University, Black Women in Sisterhood for Action, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Frederick Douglass Papers, Library of Congress, Black Caucus of the American Library Association, and the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University. Dorothy Porter Wesley received letters from scholars and professionals such as Thomas Battle, John Blassingame, Louis Harlan, Mary McLeod Bethune, Joseph Reason, and Michael Winston. Family correspondence contains personal letters written to and from Dorothy Porter Wesley's family members including her daughter Constance Porter Uzelac, first husband James A. Porter, second husband Charles Harris Wesley, and brother in-law Robert P. Porter.","Professional papers consist of conference materials, reports, grant proposals, materials from organizations of which Dorothy and Constance were members, curriculum vitas of colleagues, exhibitions, and commencement programs. Dorothy Porter Wesley participated in organizations and institutions such as the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), African Studies Association, Amistad Research Center, Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Frederick Douglass Papers Editorial Board, National Council of Negro Women, Organization of American Historians, Phi Delta Kappa, Radcliffe College, Society of American Archivists, and the W.E.B. 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She was the eldest of four children and grew up in Montclair, New Jersey. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eShe graduated from Miner Normal School, Washington D.C. in 1925 with the intention of becoming a teacher. Wesley worked as a library assistant in the Miner Normal School library where she worked with librarian Lula V. Allan (1879-1968) who encouraged her to pursue a career in library science. Wesley enrolled in Howard University in 1926 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1928. She then enrolled at Colombia University's School of Library Science where she received a Master's in Library Science in 1931. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1929 Dorothy married artist and art history professor James Amos Porter (1905-1970) with whom she had her only daughter, Constance \"Coni\" Porter Uzelac (1939-2012). James A. Porter graduated with honors from Howard University in 1927 and began teaching art there the next semester. His classic book and standard reference work, \u003cemph\u003eModern Negro Art\u003c/emph\u003e, proved to be one of the most informative sources to date on the creativity of the Black artists.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1930, Dorothy Porter began work as curator of the Moorland Foundation at Howard University, (now known as the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center) and worked to build the library's collections documenting African, African American, Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Hispanic history and culture. After becoming the Curator at Howard University in 1930, started thinking about how to catalog books by Black authors and related to Black history and culture. At the time, she recognized that the Dewey Decimal System only had two numbers (for \"Slavery\" and for \"Colonization\") under which all works related to Black people or Black authors could be cataloged. In response, during the first few years of her Curatorship, she created a new classification system that reflected the true breadth of the books available on topics related to Black people and by Black authors. She disseminated the classification system to other libraries, and published it in 1939. Porter worked at the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center until her retirement in 1973.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eJames Porter's died in 1970, and in 1979 Dorothy married Charles Harris Wesley (1891-1987), a noted historian, educator, and author. After receiving his master's degree from Yale University in 1913, he taught at Howard University from 1913 until 1942. Between 1920 and 1925, he also earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University, the fourth African American to do so. 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She also continued to write articles and books.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1994 President Bill Clinton presented her with the National Endowment for the Humanities' Charles Frankel Award. Dorothy Porter Wesley died in Broward County, Florida in 1995.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe book \u003ci\u003eWilliam Cooper Nell, Nineteenth-Century African American Abolitionist, Historian, Integrationist: Selected Writings 1832-1874\u003c/i\u003e (2002) was the last research project that Charles and Dorothy worked on together, and was posthumously published by Dorothy's daughter, Constance Porter Uzelac. Uzelac worked as a medical librarian. After her mother's death, she became the Executive Director of the Dorothy Porter Wesley Archive and managed James A. Porter's art collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 2000, Constance Uzelac worked with the Bienes Museum of the Modern Book, James Findlay, on an exhibition of her mother's collection that was displayed at the Broward County Main Library in February and March of 2001. Samuel F. Morrison, Director of the Broward County Library, was instrumental in bringing the collection to exhibition at the Bienes, and would further encourage the purchase of the materials from Uzelac for the newly-opened AARLCC Special Collections in December 2002. Constance later worked at Broward County Library, cataloging a portion of the Dorothy Porter Wesley Collection at the AARLCC Special Collections. Constance married Milan Uzelac in 1965. They had no children. 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","In 1929 Dorothy married artist and art history professor James Amos Porter (1905-1970) with whom she had her only daughter, Constance \"Coni\" Porter Uzelac (1939-2012). James A. Porter graduated with honors from Howard University in 1927 and began teaching art there the next semester. His classic book and standard reference work,  Modern Negro Art , proved to be one of the most informative sources to date on the creativity of the Black artists.","In 1930, Dorothy Porter began work as curator of the Moorland Foundation at Howard University, (now known as the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center) and worked to build the library's collections documenting African, African American, Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Hispanic history and culture. After becoming the Curator at Howard University in 1930, started thinking about how to catalog books by Black authors and related to Black history and culture. At the time, she recognized that the Dewey Decimal System only had two numbers (for \"Slavery\" and for \"Colonization\") under which all works related to Black people or Black authors could be cataloged. In response, during the first few years of her Curatorship, she created a new classification system that reflected the true breadth of the books available on topics related to Black people and by Black authors. She disseminated the classification system to other libraries, and published it in 1939. Porter worked at the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center until her retirement in 1973.","James Porter's died in 1970, and in 1979 Dorothy married Charles Harris Wesley (1891-1987), a noted historian, educator, and author. After receiving his master's degree from Yale University in 1913, he taught at Howard University from 1913 until 1942. Between 1920 and 1925, he also earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University, the fourth African American to do so. He served as President of Wilberforce University from 1942-1947 and of Central State College, Ohio from 1947 until 1965. ","Charles Harris Wesley authored more than 15 books on African-American history over the course of his career. His first book, Negro Labor in the United States, was hailed as one of the most useful works on the role of African-Americans in industry available in the 1920s. Dorothy worked with Charles on a variety of research projects even prior to their marriage, and continued to do so until Charles's death in 1987. ","After her retirement from Howard University in 1973, Dorothy Porter Wesley worked as a consultant for a variety of institutions and foundations such as the Radcliffe University's Black Women Oral History Archive. She also continued to write articles and books.","In 1994 President Bill Clinton presented her with the National Endowment for the Humanities' Charles Frankel Award. Dorothy Porter Wesley died in Broward County, Florida in 1995.","The book  William Cooper Nell, Nineteenth-Century African American Abolitionist, Historian, Integrationist: Selected Writings 1832-1874  (2002) was the last research project that Charles and Dorothy worked on together, and was posthumously published by Dorothy's daughter, Constance Porter Uzelac. Uzelac worked as a medical librarian. After her mother's death, she became the Executive Director of the Dorothy Porter Wesley Archive and managed James A. Porter's art collection.","In 2000, Constance Uzelac worked with the Bienes Museum of the Modern Book, James Findlay, on an exhibition of her mother's collection that was displayed at the Broward County Main Library in February and March of 2001. Samuel F. Morrison, Director of the Broward County Library, was instrumental in bringing the collection to exhibition at the Bienes, and would further encourage the purchase of the materials from Uzelac for the newly-opened AARLCC Special Collections in December 2002. Constance later worked at Broward County Library, cataloging a portion of the Dorothy Porter Wesley Collection at the AARLCC Special Collections. Constance married Milan Uzelac in 1965. They had no children. She died in Broward County in 2012."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eDorothy Porter Wesley Collection (AARLCC-2003.6), AARLCC Special Collections, Broward County Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Dorothy Porter Wesley Collection (AARLCC-2003.6), AARLCC Special Collections, Broward County Library."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection received file level processing. 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James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://archives.libraries.emory.edu/repositories/7/resources/3255\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDorothy Porter Wesley's papers can also be found within the James A. Porter papers at Emory University. Citation: James A. Porter papers, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University.\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Part of Dorothy Porter Wesley's papers also reside at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository at Yale University. Citation: Dorothy Porter Wesley Papers. James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.","Dorothy Porter Wesley's papers can also be found within the James A. Porter papers at Emory University. Citation: James A. Porter papers, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Dorothy Porter Wesley Collection documents the professional and personal life of librarian and bibliophile, Dorothy Porter Wesley. It contains manuscript materials, artwork, newspaper clippings, research files, photographs, awards and correspondence dating from 1905 to 2012 as well as Wesley's personal library of more than 2,800 books, pamphlets, and audio recordings dating from 1788 to 1995.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence covers her participation in professional and national organizations such as the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University, Black Women in Sisterhood for Action, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Frederick Douglass Papers, Library of Congress, Black Caucus of the American Library Association, and the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University. Dorothy Porter Wesley received letters from scholars and professionals such as Thomas Battle, John Blassingame, Louis Harlan, Mary McLeod Bethune, Joseph Reason, and Michael Winston. Family correspondence contains personal letters written to and from Dorothy Porter Wesley's family members including her daughter Constance Porter Uzelac, first husband James A. Porter, second husband Charles Harris Wesley, and brother in-law Robert P. Porter.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eProfessional papers consist of conference materials, reports, grant proposals, materials from organizations of which Dorothy and Constance were members, curriculum vitas of colleagues, exhibitions, and commencement programs. Dorothy Porter Wesley participated in organizations and institutions such as the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), African Studies Association, Amistad Research Center, Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Frederick Douglass Papers Editorial Board, National Council of Negro Women, Organization of American Historians, Phi Delta Kappa, Radcliffe College, Society of American Archivists, and the W.E.B. Dubois Institute at Harvard University.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eConstance Porter Uzelac collected documents from her career at the African American Research Library and Cultural Center branch of Broward County Libraries. She was a member of ASALH. Constance also managed the Dorothy Porter Wesley archives and the James A. Porter art collection. She attended conferences related to her parents' legacy and collection such as the Dorothy Porter Wesley Forum and Lecture Series at Howard University and the James A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art at Howard University. Documents related to Charles Harris Wesley include a Martin Luther King, Jr. commemorative service he attended and a book brochure of his monograph \"Prince Hall life and legacy\". \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe collection also includes published and unpublished works by Dorothy Porter Wesley, Constance Porter Uzelac, Charles Harris Wesley, and James A. 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It contains manuscript materials, artwork, newspaper clippings, research files, photographs, awards and correspondence dating from 1905 to 2012 as well as Wesley's personal library of more than 2,800 books, pamphlets, and audio recordings dating from 1788 to 1995.","Correspondence covers her participation in professional and national organizations such as the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University, Black Women in Sisterhood for Action, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Frederick Douglass Papers, Library of Congress, Black Caucus of the American Library Association, and the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University. Dorothy Porter Wesley received letters from scholars and professionals such as Thomas Battle, John Blassingame, Louis Harlan, Mary McLeod Bethune, Joseph Reason, and Michael Winston. Family correspondence contains personal letters written to and from Dorothy Porter Wesley's family members including her daughter Constance Porter Uzelac, first husband James A. Porter, second husband Charles Harris Wesley, and brother in-law Robert P. Porter.","Professional papers consist of conference materials, reports, grant proposals, materials from organizations of which Dorothy and Constance were members, curriculum vitas of colleagues, exhibitions, and commencement programs. Dorothy Porter Wesley participated in organizations and institutions such as the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), African Studies Association, Amistad Research Center, Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Frederick Douglass Papers Editorial Board, National Council of Negro Women, Organization of American Historians, Phi Delta Kappa, Radcliffe College, Society of American Archivists, and the W.E.B. Dubois Institute at Harvard University.","Constance Porter Uzelac collected documents from her career at the African American Research Library and Cultural Center branch of Broward County Libraries. She was a member of ASALH. Constance also managed the Dorothy Porter Wesley archives and the James A. Porter art collection. She attended conferences related to her parents' legacy and collection such as the Dorothy Porter Wesley Forum and Lecture Series at Howard University and the James A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art at Howard University. Documents related to Charles Harris Wesley include a Martin Luther King, Jr. commemorative service he attended and a book brochure of his monograph \"Prince Hall life and legacy\". ","The collection also includes published and unpublished works by Dorothy Porter Wesley, Constance Porter Uzelac, Charles Harris Wesley, and James A. Porter.","Research files contain articles, notes, and illustrations on subjects collected by Dorothy Porter Wesley and Constance Porter Uzelac during their research. Dorothy Porter Wesley conducted research on African, African American, Caribbean and Afro-Latin cultures to build the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University. Her research was also used for her writings.","Printed Materials consist of materials collected by Dorothy Porter Wesley and Constance Porter Uzelac. Dorothy Porter Wesley's saved notes in calendars and datebooks. She collected catalogs, programs, brochures, maps, and magazines covering African and African American people, places and research topics. Newspaper clippings feature articles discussing Dorothy Porter Wesley's career as a librarian, archivist and curator at Howard University. Clippings also feature Constance Porter Uzelac's stewardship of her father's art collection and mother's archival collection."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://broward.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/default/search/results?qu=DPW\u0026amp;qf=LOCATION%09Shelf+Location%091%3AAF-SPC%09AARLCC+Special+Collections\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBooks from this collection are cataloged in the Broward County Library catalog with the prefix \"DPW\".\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Access the Books"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Books from this collection are cataloged in the Broward County Library catalog with the prefix \"DPW\"."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_559c404160acc20bdc75d09cde3325a4\"\u003eThe Dorothy Porter Wesley Collection documents the professional and personal life of pioneering librarian, Dorothy Porter Wesley. 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","She graduated from Miner Normal School, Washington D.C. in 1925 with the intention of becoming a teacher. Wesley worked as a library assistant in the Miner Normal School library where she worked with librarian Lula V. Allan (1879-1968) who encouraged her to pursue a career in library science. Wesley enrolled in Howard University in 1926 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1928. She then enrolled at Colombia University's School of Library Science where she received a Master's in Library Science in 1931. ","In 1929 Dorothy married artist and art history professor James Amos Porter (1905-1970) with whom she had her only daughter, Constance \"Coni\" Porter Uzelac (1939-2012). James A. Porter graduated with honors from Howard University in 1927 and began teaching art there the next semester. His classic book and standard reference work,  Modern Negro Art , proved to be one of the most informative sources to date on the creativity of the Black artists.","In 1930, Dorothy Porter began work as curator of the Moorland Foundation at Howard University, (now known as the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center) and worked to build the library's collections documenting African, African American, Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Hispanic history and culture. After becoming the Curator at Howard University in 1930, started thinking about how to catalog books by Black authors and related to Black history and culture. At the time, she recognized that the Dewey Decimal System only had two numbers (for \"Slavery\" and for \"Colonization\") under which all works related to Black people or Black authors could be cataloged. In response, during the first few years of her Curatorship, she created a new classification system that reflected the true breadth of the books available on topics related to Black people and by Black authors. She disseminated the classification system to other libraries, and published it in 1939. Porter worked at the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center until her retirement in 1973.","James Porter's died in 1970, and in 1979 Dorothy married Charles Harris Wesley (1891-1987), a noted historian, educator, and author. After receiving his master's degree from Yale University in 1913, he taught at Howard University from 1913 until 1942. Between 1920 and 1925, he also earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University, the fourth African American to do so. He served as President of Wilberforce University from 1942-1947 and of Central State College, Ohio from 1947 until 1965. ","Charles Harris Wesley authored more than 15 books on African-American history over the course of his career. His first book, Negro Labor in the United States, was hailed as one of the most useful works on the role of African-Americans in industry available in the 1920s. Dorothy worked with Charles on a variety of research projects even prior to their marriage, and continued to do so until Charles's death in 1987. ","After her retirement from Howard University in 1973, Dorothy Porter Wesley worked as a consultant for a variety of institutions and foundations such as the Radcliffe University's Black Women Oral History Archive. She also continued to write articles and books.","In 1994 President Bill Clinton presented her with the National Endowment for the Humanities' Charles Frankel Award. Dorothy Porter Wesley died in Broward County, Florida in 1995.","The book  William Cooper Nell, Nineteenth-Century African American Abolitionist, Historian, Integrationist: Selected Writings 1832-1874  (2002) was the last research project that Charles and Dorothy worked on together, and was posthumously published by Dorothy's daughter, Constance Porter Uzelac. Uzelac worked as a medical librarian. After her mother's death, she became the Executive Director of the Dorothy Porter Wesley Archive and managed James A. Porter's art collection.","In 2000, Constance Uzelac worked with the Bienes Museum of the Modern Book, James Findlay, on an exhibition of her mother's collection that was displayed at the Broward County Main Library in February and March of 2001. Samuel F. Morrison, Director of the Broward County Library, was instrumental in bringing the collection to exhibition at the Bienes, and would further encourage the purchase of the materials from Uzelac for the newly-opened AARLCC Special Collections in December 2002. Constance later worked at Broward County Library, cataloging a portion of the Dorothy Porter Wesley Collection at the AARLCC Special Collections. Constance married Milan Uzelac in 1965. They had no children. She died in Broward County in 2012.","This collection received file level processing. This finding aid may be updated to reflect new descriptions as well as acquisitions to the collection.","Part of Dorothy Porter Wesley's papers also reside at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository at Yale University. Citation: Dorothy Porter Wesley Papers. James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.","Dorothy Porter Wesley's papers can also be found within the James A. Porter papers at Emory University. Citation: James A. Porter papers, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University.","The Dorothy Porter Wesley Collection documents the professional and personal life of librarian and bibliophile, Dorothy Porter Wesley. It contains manuscript materials, artwork, newspaper clippings, research files, photographs, awards and correspondence dating from 1905 to 2012 as well as Wesley's personal library of more than 2,800 books, pamphlets, and audio recordings dating from 1788 to 1995.","Correspondence covers her participation in professional and national organizations such as the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University, Black Women in Sisterhood for Action, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Frederick Douglass Papers, Library of Congress, Black Caucus of the American Library Association, and the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University. Dorothy Porter Wesley received letters from scholars and professionals such as Thomas Battle, John Blassingame, Louis Harlan, Mary McLeod Bethune, Joseph Reason, and Michael Winston. Family correspondence contains personal letters written to and from Dorothy Porter Wesley's family members including her daughter Constance Porter Uzelac, first husband James A. Porter, second husband Charles Harris Wesley, and brother in-law Robert P. Porter.","Professional papers consist of conference materials, reports, grant proposals, materials from organizations of which Dorothy and Constance were members, curriculum vitas of colleagues, exhibitions, and commencement programs. Dorothy Porter Wesley participated in organizations and institutions such as the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), African Studies Association, Amistad Research Center, Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Frederick Douglass Papers Editorial Board, National Council of Negro Women, Organization of American Historians, Phi Delta Kappa, Radcliffe College, Society of American Archivists, and the W.E.B. Dubois Institute at Harvard University.","Constance Porter Uzelac collected documents from her career at the African American Research Library and Cultural Center branch of Broward County Libraries. She was a member of ASALH. Constance also managed the Dorothy Porter Wesley archives and the James A. Porter art collection. She attended conferences related to her parents' legacy and collection such as the Dorothy Porter Wesley Forum and Lecture Series at Howard University and the James A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art at Howard University. Documents related to Charles Harris Wesley include a Martin Luther King, Jr. commemorative service he attended and a book brochure of his monograph \"Prince Hall life and legacy\". ","The collection also includes published and unpublished works by Dorothy Porter Wesley, Constance Porter Uzelac, Charles Harris Wesley, and James A. Porter.","Research files contain articles, notes, and illustrations on subjects collected by Dorothy Porter Wesley and Constance Porter Uzelac during their research. Dorothy Porter Wesley conducted research on African, African American, Caribbean and Afro-Latin cultures to build the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University. Her research was also used for her writings.","Printed Materials consist of materials collected by Dorothy Porter Wesley and Constance Porter Uzelac. Dorothy Porter Wesley's saved notes in calendars and datebooks. She collected catalogs, programs, brochures, maps, and magazines covering African and African American people, places and research topics. Newspaper clippings feature articles discussing Dorothy Porter Wesley's career as a librarian, archivist and curator at Howard University. 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He served as President of Wilberforce University from 1942-1947 and of Central State College, Ohio from 1947 until 1965. ","Charles Harris Wesley authored more than 15 books on African-American history over the course of his career. His first book, Negro Labor in the United States, was hailed as one of the most useful works on the role of African-Americans in industry available in the 1920s. Dorothy worked with Charles on a variety of research projects even prior to their marriage, and continued to do so until Charles's death in 1987. ","After her retirement from Howard University in 1973, Dorothy Porter Wesley worked as a consultant for a variety of institutions and foundations such as the Radcliffe University's Black Women Oral History Archive. She also continued to write articles and books.","In 1994 President Bill Clinton presented her with the National Endowment for the Humanities' Charles Frankel Award. Dorothy Porter Wesley died in Broward County, Florida in 1995.","The book  William Cooper Nell, Nineteenth-Century African American Abolitionist, Historian, Integrationist: Selected Writings 1832-1874  (2002) was the last research project that Charles and Dorothy worked on together, and was posthumously published by Dorothy's daughter, Constance Porter Uzelac. Uzelac worked as a medical librarian. After her mother's death, she became the Executive Director of the Dorothy Porter Wesley Archive and managed James A. Porter's art collection.","In 2000, Constance Uzelac worked with the Bienes Museum of the Modern Book, James Findlay, on an exhibition of her mother's collection that was displayed at the Broward County Main Library in February and March of 2001. Samuel F. 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James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://archives.libraries.emory.edu/repositories/7/resources/3255\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDorothy Porter Wesley's papers can also be found within the James A. Porter papers at Emory University. Citation: James A. Porter papers, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University.\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Part of Dorothy Porter Wesley's papers also reside at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository at Yale University. Citation: Dorothy Porter Wesley Papers. James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.","Dorothy Porter Wesley's papers can also be found within the James A. 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Family correspondence contains personal letters written to and from Dorothy Porter Wesley's family members including her daughter Constance Porter Uzelac, first husband James A. Porter, second husband Charles Harris Wesley, and brother in-law Robert P. Porter.","Professional papers consist of conference materials, reports, grant proposals, materials from organizations of which Dorothy and Constance were members, curriculum vitas of colleagues, exhibitions, and commencement programs. Dorothy Porter Wesley participated in organizations and institutions such as the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), African Studies Association, Amistad Research Center, Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Frederick Douglass Papers Editorial Board, National Council of Negro Women, Organization of American Historians, Phi Delta Kappa, Radcliffe College, Society of American Archivists, and the W.E.B. 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Porter.","Research files contain articles, notes, and illustrations on subjects collected by Dorothy Porter Wesley and Constance Porter Uzelac during their research. Dorothy Porter Wesley conducted research on African, African American, Caribbean and Afro-Latin cultures to build the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University. Her research was also used for her writings.","Printed Materials consist of materials collected by Dorothy Porter Wesley and Constance Porter Uzelac. Dorothy Porter Wesley's saved notes in calendars and datebooks. She collected catalogs, programs, brochures, maps, and magazines covering African and African American people, places and research topics. Newspaper clippings feature articles discussing Dorothy Porter Wesley's career as a librarian, archivist and curator at Howard University. 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Morrison earned a Master's degree in Library Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1972 and attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University completing coursework in 1989. ","From 1972-1974, Morrison worked as a library director at the Frostproof Living Learning Library Center in Frostproof, Florida. He built a library and initiated outreach services for the African American and Hispanic migrant communities. In 1974, Morrison became the assistant director of Broward County Library in Broward County, Florida and served as deputy director from 1976-1987. He assisted in the growth of Broward County Library from 2 branches to 25 branches during this time. He also managed the formation of the new Main Library branch in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Florida.","Morrison lead in the construction of the Chicago Public Library's Harold Washington Library Center and became the library's chief director from 1987 to 1990. 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Morrison earned a Master's degree in Library Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1972 and attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University completing coursework in 1989. ","From 1972-1974, Morrison worked as a library director at the Frostproof Living Learning Library Center in Frostproof, Florida. He built a library and initiated outreach services for the African American and Hispanic migrant communities. In 1974, Morrison became the assistant director of Broward County Library in Broward County, Florida and served as deputy director from 1976-1987. He assisted in the growth of Broward County Library from 2 branches to 25 branches during this time. He also managed the formation of the new Main Library branch in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Florida.","Morrison lead in the construction of the Chicago Public Library's Harold Washington Library Center and became the library's chief director from 1987 to 1990. In 1990, Morrison returned to Broward County as director of Broward County Library and worked in that position until his retirement in 2003. Under his leadership, Broward County Library was awarded \"Library of the Year\" in 1996 and grew to 38 branches. During his tenure as director, Morrison fundraised for the creation of the African American Research Library and Cultural Center, which serves as a public library as well as a special collections research center dedicated to the history and culture of the African diaspora. He attended the library's groundbreaking ceremony on October 23, 1999 and opening day on October 26, 2002.","Samuel F. Morrison actively participated in local and national organizations during his career. He served in the Fort Lauderdale Chapter of the NAACP, Urban League of Broward County, Florida Library Association (FLA), and American Library Association (ALA). He was president of the Florida Library Association in 1981. 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Hewitt was an instructor for the Department of English and co-chairman for the Division of Humanities at Morehouse College in Atlanta. Hewitt also held the post of reporter for the New York Amsterdam News; later on he became a medical writer for the Medical Tribune, and served as an editor for both Hospital Practice and Emergency Medicine. Hewitt wrote various articles in publications such as the New York History, the Massachusetts Review, Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, and the International Review of African American Art. He was a member of the American Medical Writers Association. John Hewitt passed away on February 25, 2000.","Vivian Ann Davidson was born on February 17, 1920 in New Castle, Pennsylvania. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Education from Geneva College in 1943 and a M.S. degree in library science from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania in 1944. Vivian Hewitt worked as a librarian in Pittsburg and Atlanta, Georgia. She was the first black woman to serve as a librarian in the city of Pittsburgh. From 1963 to 1983, she was the chief librarian at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Vivian was the first African American president of the Special Libraries Association (1978-1979). She was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Citation from the University of Pittsburgh-Carnegie Library School Alumni Association, Merit Award from Carnegie Mellon University, and the L.H.D. from Geneva College. In addition to being recognized by her alma maters, she was recognized by the American Library Association, and in 1984 she was inducted into the organization's Hall of Fame. In 2016, Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain bestowed the title of Dame upon Hewitt for her work in the service of humanity. In 2017, Hewitt received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree at Carnegie Mellon University's 120th Commencement. She passed away on May 29, 2022.","John and Vivian Hewitt had one son, John Hewitt III (1952-2022).","The Hewitts moved to New York in 1951. In the 1960s, the Hewitts collected primarily Haitian art. In the 1970s, the Hewitts began exhibiting their collection of art in their Sugar Hill, Harlem home and became enmeshed in New York's art community. J. Eugene Grigsby, Vivian Hewitt's cousin and internationally acclaimed artist, introduced the couple to many artists. At that time the couple began collecting art by African American artists as well.","In 1998, the Hewitts sold 58 of their major works to the Bank of America which resulted in a travelling exhibition of the pieces at 25 museums. In 2009, the Bank of America donated the collection to the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts and Culture.","In 1998, Vivian Hewitt attended two fundraisers for the construction of the African American Research Library and Cultural Center (AARLCC) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. In 2002, artwork from her collection was exhibited at AARLCC in \"Celebration and Vision: The Hewitt Collection of African-American Art.\" Also in 2002, Vivian Hewitt donated 14 pieces of Haitian art from their collection to the Broward County Library in memory of her husband, John H. Hewitt, Jr. Along with the art she also donated personal papers as well as books and other supporting materials. In 2022, in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the opening of the African American Research Library and Cultural Center, the library held an exhibit titled \"Collectors' Duet: The Lifelong Librarianship of Vivian D. Hewitt and Dorothy Porter Wesley.\"","The Vivian D. and John H. Hewitt Collection received file level processing by Afua Ferdnance and Emily Calderon in 2021. Additional materials were processed at the item level by Erin Purdy in April 2025. 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Hewitt also held the post of reporter for the New York Amsterdam News; later on he became a medical writer for the Medical Tribune, and served as an editor for both Hospital Practice and Emergency Medicine. Hewitt wrote various articles in publications such as the New York History, the Massachusetts Review, Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, and the International Review of African American Art. He was a member of the American Medical Writers Association. John Hewitt passed away on February 25, 2000.","Vivian Ann Davidson was born on February 17, 1920 in New Castle, Pennsylvania. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Education from Geneva College in 1943 and a M.S. degree in library science from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania in 1944. Vivian Hewitt worked as a librarian in Pittsburg and Atlanta, Georgia. She was the first black woman to serve as a librarian in the city of Pittsburgh. 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John Hewitt passed away on February 25, 2000.","Vivian Ann Davidson was born on February 17, 1920 in New Castle, Pennsylvania. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Education from Geneva College in 1943 and a M.S. degree in library science from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania in 1944. Vivian Hewitt worked as a librarian in Pittsburg and Atlanta, Georgia. She was the first black woman to serve as a librarian in the city of Pittsburgh. From 1963 to 1983, she was the chief librarian at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Vivian was the first African American president of the Special Libraries Association (1978-1979). She was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Citation from the University of Pittsburgh-Carnegie Library School Alumni Association, Merit Award from Carnegie Mellon University, and the L.H.D. from Geneva College. 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