Editing Houston Public Library (section)

===Carnegie Colored Library===
The board for the Houston Carnegie Library had planned for universal access to the facilities. However, those working at the library turned away African-Americans educators who visited in 1907, while ostensibly referring the matter to the trustees. A group of African-American educators led by [[Ernest O. Smith]] lobbied local white leaders and the Carnegie Foundation for a library to serve the black community. The [[Colored Carnegie Library of Houston]] opened in 1913 with an African American board of trustees and management. It was transferred to the management as a branch library of Houston Public Library in 1921.<ref name="malone">{{cite journal|journal=Libraries & Culture|volume=34|issue=2|year=1999|pages=95–112|title=Autonomy and Accommodation: Houston's Colored Carnegie Library, 1907–1922|jstor=25548712|last1=Malone|first1=Cheryl Knott}}</ref>

On July 31, 1961, the Carnegie Colored Library closed.<ref name="Malonep673">{{Cite journal |at=p. 673 |doi=10.1353/lib.2007.0015|title=Unannounced and Unexpected: The Desegregation of Houston Public Library in the Early 1950s|journal=Library Trends|volume=55|issue=3|year=2007|last1=Malone|first1=Cheryl Knott|hdl=2142/3712|hdl-access=free}}</ref> The library facility required extensive repairs and it was in the path of the Clay Avenue extension project.<ref name="Malonep671">{{Cite journal |at=p. 671 |doi=10.1353/lib.2007.0015|title=Unannounced and Unexpected: The Desegregation of Houston Public Library in the Early 1950s|journal=Library Trends|volume=55|issue=3|year=2007|last1=Malone|first1=Cheryl Knott|hdl=2142/3712|hdl-access=free}}</ref> The branch, auctioned in February 1962 and shortly afterward demolished except for the cornerstone, was replaced by the W. L. D. Johnson Library in [[Sunnyside, Houston|Sunnyside]], dedicated on June 16, 1964.<ref name="Malonep673" />{{dubious|date=July 2018}}