N.J. Mastro
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Belle da Costa Greene: The Cleverest Woman in the Country
Though she was Black, Belle da Costa Greene, personal librarian to J.P. Morgan, lived her entire adult life passing as a white woman. Why?
N.J. Mastro
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Dorothea Lange, Photo Documentarian
Dorothea Lange, one of America's most iconic 20th century photo documentarians, used her Graflex camera as an early form of social media.
N.J. Mastro
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Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, Queen of Demerara
One today can never know what it was like to be a Black woman born into slavery in Montserrat in the late 18th century. But author...