GLAs first president was Anne Wallace, elected at the organization's first meeting May 31, 1897, in Atlanta, Georgia.

[2] The Georgia Library Association was open only to White librarians until the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

[6] He founded the Black Caucus of ALA in 1970 and was president of the American Library Association from 1984 through 1985.

[1] Records of the Georgia Library Association are archived at Valdosta State University.

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