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Born September 7, 1914, in Summerfield, FL
Died February 4, 1998, in New York, NY
For 32 years, Jean Blackwell Hutson guided the development of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the world’s most comprehensive collection of materials documenting the history and culture of peoples of African descent. As curator and then chief, she worked to acquire, catalogue, and exhibit materials at the New York Public Library from 1948 to 1980. She also lectured on Black studies and history at the City College of New York for over a decade. In 1994, the Schomburg Center’s Jean Hutson General Research and Reference Division was named in her honor.