Chapter Six - The New York Public Library

Regina Andrews worked at the New York Public Library from the early 1920s until her mandatory retirement in the mid-1960s.

Chapter 5 - The Harlem Experimental Theatre

This digital story chronicles Regina Andrews' involvement with the Harlem Experimental Theatre during the Harlem Renaissance.

The Wisconsin Book Panel

Yesterday I was on a panel, Recovering Black Women Writers from the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond, for the Wisconsin Book Festival with my friends professors Cherene Sherrard-Johnson and Tracy Curtis. I shared my work on Regina Andrews. We were quite pleased to have a large turnout for our session and I always welcome the opportunity to talk about Regina.

Audre Lorde and Regina Andrews

I was invited to give a talk about Audre Lorde's library career. During my research I discovered that Audre Lorde was a clerk at the New York Public Library from 1955 - 1958 and she clerked at the Washington Heights Branch in 1956 when Regina Andrews was the Supervising Librarian there!

Clara Stanton Jones

One of the pioneering African American librarians mentioned in the introduction of my book about Regina was Clara Stanton Jones. In 1976 Jones became the first African American President of the American Library Association. Jones was also the Director of the Detroit Public Library--another first for an African American in 1970. She was included on a poster for an exhibit in 2012 about Pioneering African American Librarians displayed in my department, the School of Library & Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Jones died late last month at the age of 99.

Chapter Four - Bill

This chapter describes Regina's romantic life and culminates in her marriage to William "Bill" Trent Andrews, Jr. Her marriage would last for 58 years until Bill's death in 1984. Regina was eighty-three years old.

Digital Story: Chapter Three - The Harlem Renaissance & 580 St. Nicholas Avenue

This chapter chronicles Regina's life during the Harlem Renaissance.