by AG Staff The “Colored Library” opened in 1927 in the YMI, changed its name to the Market Street Branch of City Libraries in 1951 and closed in 1966, the library system having desegregated in 1962. Here, Elizabeth Howze, a Livingston Street School teacher, conducts a story hour in 1959. In Asheville, conversations about race, belonging, and place rarely stay abstract for long. They show up in church basements, family cemeteries, and in the quiet geometry of neighborhoods wh
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