Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Julia Harden
Julia Harden
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| Other authors / contributors: | Harden, Julia, 1909-2006, interviewee.
Hamilton, Racine Tucker, interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Racine Tucker Hamilton, interviewer.
Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2004 March 4.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Librarian Julia Woodhouse Harden was born on July 6, 1909 in Baltimore, Maryland. Her elementary school classmates from Division Street School included former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and entertainers Cab Calloway and Ann Brown. After graduating from Douglass High School in Baltimore, she attended New York University from 1926 to 1930. She earned her M.S. degree in library sciences from Columbia University. She then accepted a position as a librarian at Howard University in Washington, D.C. There, she worked under university presidents Mordecai Johnson and James Nabrit. She married Dr. K. Albert Harden in 1933 who later became the dean of Howard University's Medical School. After her marriage, Harden resigned her job at Howard, but returned in 1940 to a similar position. She was an active member of a numerous civic organizations, including her sorority, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Harden passed away on February 11, 2006 at age 96.
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