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Friends of the African American Museum & Library at Oakland
659 Fourteenth Street Oakland, CA 94612 510-659-0200The Mayor’s FY 2011-13 Proposed Budget Threatens to Close the Doors of
AAMLO and OUR HISTORY!

· AAMLO houses 400+ collections of African American history from the
1840s to present day.

· There are over 20,000 books by and about African Americans in its library.

· There is a large collection of Rare Books.

· Exhibits are curated from the Archive Collection and traveling exhibitions.

The Community should make our feelings and intent clear that we want the library to remain open, no other option is acceptable.

We are clearly in the time of White Supremacy institutions closing any ethnic institutions whether libraries, ethnic studies departments,media outlets.