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Belle da Costa Greene was an American librarian best known for managing and developing the personal library of J. Her husband was an attorney and dean of the Howard Law.

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One daughter of this book-loving man and advocate for racial equality would go on to become the most respected librarian of her era and an expert on medieval illuminated.

. Belle Marian Greener who was born to Greener and his first wife Genevieve Ida Fleet passed for white. Her father Richard T. She was the daughter of Genevieve Ida Fleet Greener 18491941 and Richard T.

Greener separated from his wife although they never divorced. Genevieve Ida Fleet daughter of James H. Bella da Costa Greene 1914 Public Domain Image Belle da Costa Greene was one of the most prominent librarians in American history.

When the university was closed in June of 1877 by Wade Hampton and the newly elected Democratic. Greener was a well. Wife of Richard Theodore Greener married September 24 1874 and daughter of Hermione Peters and James H.

Her family life was complicated. She was born Belle Marion Greener. Greener 18441922 the first Black graduate of Harvard College and was at birth known by a different.

Fleet born circa 1849 married Richard Theodore Greener September 24 1874. Belle Greener Greene is Notable. Genevieve Van Vliet Greenemarried Robert MacKenzie Leveridgeandhad 2children.

Her mother Genevieve Ida Fleet Greene came from a prominent Black family in Washington DC. The daughter of Genevieve Ida Fleet a member of a well-known African American family in the capital and Richard Theodore Greener an attorney and dean of the Howard Law School who. On September 24 1874 Greener married Genevieve Ida Fleet.

Bornin New York or Virginiaon 22 Feb 1893to Richard Theodore Greenerand Geneivieve Ida Fleet. Richard Greener attended Phillips Andover Oberlin. On September 24 1874 he was married to Genevieve Ida Fleet by whom he had seven children.

Even lighter-skinned than her two light-skinned African-American parents she.

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