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Joanna Banks
1943–2025
United States
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Biography
Joanna Banks (March 28, 1943 – September 28, 2025) was an American book collector. In 2018 Banks donated her collection of African-American literature to Penn Libraries. The collection comprises over 10,000 books by African-American authors, primarily published from the 1970s onwards, with particular strengths in women's writing, children's literature, cookbooks, and African-American periodicals.
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