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Haitians Want To Know About NegroPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti. —(ANP)—“Send us books and newspapers. We want to know more about the colored Americans/’ is the constantly repeated request of the people of Haiti to Dr. L. D. Reddick of the New York Public library, who is on a good-will tour in that country.English is taught in the schools and by the aid of radio broadcasts and movie newsreels from the United States, many adults, also, have learned to read and speak the American language.However, many of the schools and libraries do not receive a single Negro newspaper or magazine from America.In a conference of Haitian authors and newspaper men, which was arranged by Dr. Louis Mars of Port-Au-Prince, Dr. Reddick was asked about theInewest and best bocks in the fields of history, Negro music, rural sociology and literature.In bis radio broadcast of Wednesday, May 22, over the Port-Au-Prince station, HH2S, Dr. Reddick outlined the general plan for the exchange of books, scholars and newspapers between Haiti and the United States. An arrangement has been completed for sending one copy of every new bock published in Haiti to the Schomburg collection of the New York Public library.“It would be a worthy public .service,’ said Dr. Reddick, “if the leading Negro newspapers of the United States would send copies of each issue to hie leading newspapers, libraries and schools of Haiti.’
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Phoenix Index
Phoenix, Arizona, US
Sat, Jun 07, 1941
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