Recent scholarship has shone a light on the experiences of Black women librarians such as Audre Lorde (Pollock and Haley 2018), Nella Larsen (Hochman 2018), Belle de Costa Green (Ardizzone 2007), and Regina Andrews Anderson (Whitmire 2014). As Pollock and Haley (2018) make clear, “Black women have always been integral to first, literacy movements of the 1800s and later librarianship. It also became clear that literacy, social justice activism, and literary cultural production have always intersected for middle class, educated Black women.”

One place where this can be observed is within the profession of librarianship” (15). One name that is absent from the canon of noteworthy Black women librarians is Adella Hunt Logan. This essay will explore the degree to which the collection and dissemination of information and social justice activism intersected within her life and work.