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Lucille Baldwin Brown
Lucille Baldwin Holliday Brown (May 15, 1922 - August 17, 2019) was an American librarian known for being the first Black public county librarian in the state of Florida.[1] During segregation she led a campaign for a library for Leon County's black residents. That library was housed in a local school, Lincoln High School.[2] She worked primarily in school libraries in Leon County, working in Griffin High School and Bond Elementary (then a junior high school). Later in her career she worked night shifts at the Northwood Mall's public library.[2] She served as the membership chair for the Florida division of the American Association of School Libraries.[3] Brown was born to Mr. and Mrs. Dallis Baldwin on Suwannee Street in the Smoky Hollow community of Tallahassee, Florida, one of ten children.[4] She was a charter member of Sigma Gamma Rho.[5] She was married to George (Rabbit) Holliday in 1941, they had one son, Lee Duval Holliday.[6] After he died in 1975, she married James Brown in 1979.[6] References
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