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Honoring the life of Dulcina DeBerry
Black History Month: Huntsville trailblazer who opened doors and turned pages for African Americans in the 1940s
Black History Month: Honoring the life of Dulcina DeBerry By Kellie Miller | February 11, 2021 at 5:56 PM CST - Updated February 12 at 8:52 AM
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - In the 1900s, educational resources for African Americans were scarce. But Dulcina DeBerry, educator and librarian, worked hard to fight those inequities and eventually opened the first public library for African Americans in Madison County.
âShe was a very compassionate person. She was a scholar, she loved to learnâ¦and she was a problem solver,â said Shalis Worthy, Archivist at the Huntsville-Madison County Public Library.
Mrs. Jane Elizabeth Allen
Jane was born in Dayton, Virginia, in 1939, and attended schools in Arlington and Harrisonburg. After attending James Madison University (then Madison College) during 1957-1958, she moved to Washington, D.C., where she worked for the Civil Service Commission (Investigations Division), while attending the Strayer School of Business at night (completed Private Secretarial Course in 1960). She then transferred to The Pentagon where she worked for the Navy Department. She met her husband Bill who was in the Marine Corps at Quantico, Virginia, in 1963; and, two days after their marriage in the Arlington Church of Christ, the couple moved to Alabama. After the birth of their first child, Jane was employed by the U.S. Air Force at Maxwell Air Force Base as a secretary-steno for the Consolidated Base Personnel Office and for Air University Personnel. She later transferred to Gunter Air Force Base, where she worked as an editorial assistant for the Extension Course
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Bill Robinson
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Dec 26, 2020
Morgan Giles holds the book she translated from Japanese. The novel won the National Book Award for Translated Literature this year.
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A 2001 community exchange trip to Japan as a middle school student set Richmond native Morgan Giles on a path which led her translating from Japanese the novel that won the National Book Award for Translated Literature this year.
The National Book Awards rank in significance with the Pulitzer Prizes, but the Pulitzers give no prize for translated literature. Thus, the NBA is the highest recognition in that category. The awards were announced Nov. 18 just before Giles flew from her home in London, England, to visit with her parents in Richmond.