"She leaned over the crackling fire and watched each piece of paper from her lifetime of secrets burn slowly. White supremacy had forced her hand – but no one, especially not her boss, could ever find out what she had done."

Today on 2-Minute Black History, we learn the story of Belle de Costa Greene

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