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Charleston County Celebrates 35 Years of the Americans with Disabilities Act
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Roanoke, United States · RoanokeVirginia Y. Lee at the Gainsboro Library, in an undated image. In the 1940s, Roanoke officials ordered Lee, the Gainsboro librarian, to remove her collection of Black history and literature from the library. COURTESY OF THE VIRGINIA ROOM AT ROANOKE PUBLIC LIBRARIES A portrait of longtime librarian Virginia Y. Lee watched on as members of Roanoke’s equity board gathered this month in the room dedicated to her name.It was a fitting setting for the…See the Story