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The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History

     The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History is a Special Library of the Atlanta-Fulton County Library System. It is the first library of its kind in the southeast offering specialized reference and archival collections for the study and research of African cultures. The library is a public facility with non-circulating collections, services and programs free and open to the general public.

       The nucleus of the Auburn Avenue Research Library collection was established in 1934 as the Negro History Collection of Non-Circulating Books. This unique collection was created by combining a small existing collection at the first Auburn Avenue Branch, with another small collection from the Adult Education Project which operated from 1931 to 1934. In 1949 the collection was moved to the West Hunter Branch, the second branch established to serve Atlanta's African-American population.