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Black History: All Aboard to Yaphank, the Great War, and Obscurity	They stand looking at the camera, their faces neutral, their armbands reading “LIRR Jamaica.” These five men from Queens are draftees, waiting at the Jamaica Long Island Rail Road...	4	08-02-2013	02-08-2013	No	jwalsh	0	Read More..	Login to comment	History	Library	Black History Month, Buffalo Soldiers, infuenza, Jamaica, LIRR, Long Island Rail Road, racism, World War I, WWI, Yaphank	Jeremy Walsh	80	Blog entry
Take Our Black History Tour	Queens Library houses more than a collection of works about African-American history. Our library has been shaped by, has gone to great lengths to document and continually celebrates the African-...	3.42857	15-02-2013	02-04-2013	No	MKearl	0	Read More..	Login to comment		Library	Black History, Black History Month, Langston Hughes, Lewis Latimer, Louis Armstrong, Mary Ann Shaw	Mary Kearl	68.5714	Blog entry
Black History Tour Landmark, The Archives at Queens Library	Among the items in the Archives at Queens Library’s collection of original sources, documenting the history of the four counties of Long Island, are personal correspondence, financial...	0	11-02-2013	02-04-2013	No	MKearl	1	Read More..	1 Comment Login to comment	History	Library	Black History, Black History Month, Jamaica, Lewis Latimer, newspapers	Mary Kearl	0	Blog entry
Queens Library at Langston Hughes to Be Recognized as Literary Landmark: Join Us!	Queens Library’s Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center will be nationally recognized on Saturday, February 9, 2013, as a Literary Landmark by United for Libraries. It is the...	5	29-01-2013	01-28-2013	No	MKearl	0	Read More..	Login to comment	Books	Library	African American heritage, Black History Month, Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes, Literary Landmark, New York City, poetry, Queens	Queens Library	100	Blog entry