BU Libraries acquire the papers of pioneering journalist Dorothy Butler Gilliam
The Special Collections division of the Boston University Libraries has acquired the papers of Dorothy Butler Gilliam, the reporter, columnist, and educator who was the first Black woman journalist at the Washington Post. This major acquisition by the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center of the BU Libraries provides access to the journalist’s notes, drafts, correspondences, and other […]
The BU Libraries remember Solomon “Shlomo” Wiesel
The Boston University Libraries remember Solomon “Shlomo” Wiesel on Sunday, the 18th of Shevat in the Jewish calendar (February 16), the 80th anniversary of his tragic passing at Buchenwald Concentration Camp. This father, husband, storekeeper and community activist in Sighet, Hungary, was 50 years old when he died in 1945–some 10 weeks before his son, […]