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April 1996
In Memoriam: Dorothy Porter Wesley
Dorothy Porter Wesley, winner of the 1993 Distinguished Service Award of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, died of cancer on December 17, 1995. A pioneer in the preservation of sources for African-American history, she developed the Moorland-Spingarn Collection of Afro-American Life and History within the library of Howard University in Washington, DC. The NHPRC award was one of many she had received as an archivist, librarian, bibliographer, and author.