Greetings Colleagues, I trust you're well. Today I'm celebrating Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett. In 1853, he became the first African-American student at the Connecticut Normal School. He worked for 14 years as a teacher in Philadelphia. In 1869, President Ulysses S. Grant appointed Bassett as the U.S. Minister to Haiti and the Dominican Republic making him the first African-American to serve as a U.S. diplomat anywhere in the world. Facebook "Event" Test I'm testing the "Event" feature of Facebook today. If you receive an e-mail from Sandra Phoenix Hbcu LA, please accept. And if you have not done so, please "like" the HBCU Library Alliance page https://www.facebook.com/hbculibraryalliance1/ Respectfully, Sandra SANDRA M. PHOENIX Executive Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 800-999-8558, ext. 4820 404-592-4820 Skype: sandra.phoenix1 Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/hbculibraryalliance1/ 1438 West Peachtree NW Suite 200 Atlanta,GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (LYRASIS) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org<http://www.lyrasis.org/> Honor the ancestors, honor the children.