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Griffis, Matthew
Dr. Matthew Griffis is an Assistant Professor in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Southern Mississippi. He studies public libraries as community spaces, library buildings as social architecture, and the history of libraries in North America. In 2016, he began a three-year project funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) about the twelve, Carnegie-funded segregated public libraries that opened across the American south ca. 1908-1924.
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BlackPast, B. (2017, September 20). Griffis, Matthew. BlackPast.org. https://www.blackpast.org/acad_historians/griffis-matthew/
