Marjorie Adele Blackistone Bradfield

Marjorie Adele Blackistone Bradfield (May 10, 1911 – November 19, 1999) was an American librarian who worked at the Detroit Public Library and Detroit Public Schools. She was the first African-American librarian hired at the Detroit Public Library.

Early life and education

Marjorie Adele Blackistone was born May 10, 1911, in Washington, D.C. She returned to the University of Michigan and received a Master of Library Science degree in 1940.

Bradfield was hired by the Detroit Public Library in 1938, becoming the first professional African-American librarian there. Bradfield left the library to raise her two children in 1950, but returned in 1964, continuing her work building the library's collection of black literature.