a Relative...I will be at the kickoff to the Exhibit this week with my sister, a niece, and a some cousins...she passed and was a curator for the wealthiest guy in the world...I am learning so much about a relative these last few months...amazing story...Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy!!!
Read "The Personal Librarian." When I saw her photograph, I thought how could she have "passed"? I'm sure somebody knew before 1999; simply secrets kept
I worked at the Pierpont Morgan Library - as it then was - from 1987-1989, in their shop. I knew her story as a result of a trustee telling one of the guards, who told me and another co-worker. I suspect that it was the same gentleman who told the author of the biography about J.P. Morgan, Jean Strouse thirty years later; but I knew in 1987/88. I am looking forward to seeing this exhibition!
@@allenjune3 this country disappoints me in it’s terrible race relations………. It’ll never learn cos we have too many bigots….. who hate the fact that non Whites are just the same ……..
Just ran the numbers $833 in 1922 is worth $15,550 in 2024 dollars... I think that was a weekly paycheck, but even if it was monthly, it's still a tidy sum. Nice!!!
a Relative...I will be at the kickoff to the Exhibit this week with my sister, a niece, and a some cousins...she passed and was a curator for the wealthiest guy in the world...I am learning so much about a relative these last few months...amazing story...Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy!!!
That's amazing!
You can clearly see that Belle is not white.
But I'm glad she got paid well
The Personal Librarian - where I learned about her - is an astonishing book!
A WOW!
I read "Belle Greene" by Alexandra Lapierre and I couldn't but it down! I will read The personal librarian next!
This is awesome! She deserves all her flowers!
I cannot believe she’s not famous! The book was brilliant.
I read a book about her, may I ask which one did you read?
@@dionmillington7305 in book club we read and had a great discussion about
Personal Librarian…… written by two brilliant women……
You should know why.😐
Read "The Personal Librarian." When I saw her photograph, I thought how could she have "passed"? I'm sure somebody knew before 1999; simply secrets kept
2:52 he was having an affair with her. her left her a fortune
I worked at the Pierpont Morgan Library - as it then was - from 1987-1989, in their shop. I knew her story as a result of a trustee telling one of the guards, who told me and another co-worker. I suspect that it was the same gentleman who told the author of the biography about J.P. Morgan, Jean Strouse thirty years later; but I knew in 1987/88. I am looking forward to seeing this exhibition!
It is not an absolute that if one is smart and persistent that one will succeed, no matter what one's race is.
People see what they want to see. It’s very obvious this woman was of African descent.
it was obvious, were there no eyeglasses available to the masses
Back then they thought if you were not dark skinned you were not black. Just like today when people ask "Are you black"?
Exactly. I do not understand.
❤ LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING 👀 THAT BEAUTIFUL INTERESTING DISPLAY 🎉
What a great woman!
They knew. In those days, t hey always knew. You saw the Great Gatsby... Passing...
$833 paycheck for 1800's????😮😮😮 I know people who don't make that much in 2024
I saw a book about her at a TJX store in Canada
Not lost , they just refuse to talk about, we don't matter, or they don't want people to know.
@@allenjune3 this country disappoints me in it’s terrible race relations………. It’ll never learn cos we have too many bigots…..
who hate the fact that non Whites are just the same ……..
What years was Belle at Princeton? My grandmother was a secretary in the math department at Princeton in 30’s.
Nahhhh there’s more to her story. This deserves a full feature.
Why are they assuming JP Morgan didnt know she was black? Alot a of whites and blacks worked together during that time , prior to , and thereafter.
Just ran the numbers $833 in 1922 is worth $15,550 in 2024 dollars... I think that was a weekly paycheck, but even if it was monthly, it's still a tidy sum. Nice!!!
JP was not the only Maga with Black mistress
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Tell that to 45 and his MAGAs......
I think there is a fiction book about her.