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Photograph of librarian Wessie Connell talks to a group of children on the grounds of the Roddenbery Memorial Library in 1968. She wears a sleeveless blue shift dress and stands in front of the children. A brick wall rises behind them.Connell founded the first public library in Cairo in 1939 and is credited with developing such outreach activities as children's story time and book mobiles.
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  1. African American Children
  2. African Americans
  3. Brick Walls
  4. Cairo
  5. Children
  6. Connell, Wessie, 1915 1987
  7. Georgia
  8. Librarians
  9. Libraries
  10. Public Librarians
  11. Public Libraries
  12. Roddenbery Memorial Library (Cairo, Ga.)
  13. Walls
  14. Women
  15. Women Librarians

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