Clara Stanton Jones, ’38

Clara Stanton Jones
1971 photo, U-M School of Information, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan

Two board members quit and petitions circulated when Jones became director of the Detroit Public Library in 1970. The first African American and the first woman to fill that leadership role, Jones went on to become the first African American president of the American Library Association.

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