When She Didn’t Grow up Seeing Herself in Books, She Became the Librarian She Never Had

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Sarah Porter for The 19th; courtesy of Cassie Owens Moore This story was copublished with The 19th, an independent, nonprofit newsroom reporting on gender, politics, policy, and power, as well as #WeTheCivic: America 250, a narrative movement centering the multiracial nonprofit and civil society workers, organizations, and communities in America 250 narratives.  This story was originally reported by Errin Haines of The 19th. Meet Errin and read …

When she didn’t grow up seeing herself in books, she became the librarian she never had

In the lead-up to our country’s 250th anniversary, Errin Haines is writing a series of columns to contemplate the complicated expansion of our democracy. Subscribe to The Amendment newsletter. Cassie Owens Moore’s students used to say that her classroom felt like a library; she never hesitated to lend one of the books from her personal collection, like when Black boys borrowed a copy of Kwame Alexander’s “Crossover” and found their love of readi…