Robert Teeter writes sent over An Obituary For Miriam Matthews, the first black librarian for the city of Los Angeles, and believed to be the first in California, who became an expert on preserving and describing black history, has died. She was 97.
Matthews, who worked for the Los Angeles Public Library from 1927 to 1960, died June 23 at the Sunrise assisted-living facility in Mercer Island, Wash., of causes associated with aging. She had moved to the Seattle-area island in 1996 to be close to her nephew, Charles H. Matthews Jr., and his family.
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