The Library allows the Haley Farm to fulfills it potential as the home and school for the CDF and the Movement to Leave No Child Behind®

CDF Board Members

 

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Hughes Library Advisory Board Members
Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop Professor College of Education The Ohio State University
Mr. Jon Cawthorne Assistant Director for Main Library Detroit Public Library
Mr. James Early
Director, Cultural Heritage Policy Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife Programs and Culture Studies
Mr. Wade Hudson & Mrs. Cheryl Willis Hudson
Publishers Just Us Books, Inc.
Mr. Andrew Jackson
Executive Director Queens Borough Public Library Langston Hughes Community Library & Cultural Center

Dr. Dianne "Dinah" Johnson Professor Department of English University of South Carolina
Dr. E. J. Josey
Professor Emeritus University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Carole McCollough
Chair, Coretta Scott King Task Force

Mrs. Effie Lee Morris
Former, Coordinator Children's Services San Francisco Public Library
Dr. Teresa Y. Neely
Head of Reference University of Maryland Baltimore County Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery
Ms. Irene Smalls
Author
Dr. Jinx Watson
Assistant Professor School of Information Sciences The University of Tennessee

Mr. Khafre K. Abif
Director, Langston Hughes Library Children's Defense Fund/former Alex Haley Farm

Ex-Officio Members
Mrs. Marian Wright Edelman Founder & President Children's Defense Fund (CDF)
Reverend Dr. Joan S. Parrott Vice President for Haley Farm Leadership Development and Spiritual Renewal Programs CDF

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