THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN LAKELAND
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| | Back | This small bungalow at 1042 Virginia Avenue became the first library for black residents in Lakeland. It opened on October 4, 1937. Black residents were not welcome at the main library in what is now the Chamber of Commerce Building on Lake Morton. Elsie Dunbar, who later served as the principal of the Rochelle Junior High School, was the librarian. This branch library was moved to the Northwest Community Center (the Coleman-Bush Building) in 1975. A new branch library, the Larry R. Jackson Branch Library, opened on North Florida Avenue in 1995.
(Photograph from the Northwest Community Collection, RG420) |
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