George Cleveland Hall Branch Library

CTL-E-1243 · Institution · other · unspecified

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The first full-service Chicago Public Library branch in Bronzeville, opened January 1932; birthplace of the Special Negro Collection and a Black intellectual meeting place during the Chicago Black Renaissance.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from INST-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-INST-001:INST-035; source research type(s): library. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

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S-codes S03 (see working/track-b/sources.md)

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