Western States Black Research and Educational Center

The Collection

Goals &

Objectives

Click to watch an introduction to the

Collection

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Donations:

Avery Clayton, artist,

educator, historian, and entrepreneur, who continued his mother's vision by founding the Mayme A. Clayton Library and Museum in Culver City, passed away on Thanksgiving Day. The Library is now led by the Interim Executive Director, Dr. Cynthia Hudley, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.Cynthia Hudley's Main Page

To celebrate and sustain the vision and the legacy of Mayme A. Clayton and her son, Avery Clayton, consider making an end of year donation to the Mayme Clayton Library and Museum (MCLM), 4130 Overland Ave., Culver City, CA 90230. www.claytonmuseum.org

Hours of Operation:

Currently not open to the public, opening in late 2011/early 2012.

Contributions

Please read Emory Holmes,II January 2009

American Legacy Magazine article

about the Mayme A. Clayton Collection

Click link below to read:

American Legacy Winter 2009

Please read the ABC News Enter

tainment

story about MCLM, posted 09.09.09

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=8377717

The Clayton and Huntington

Libraries present: Central Avenue & Beyond: the Harlem Renaissance in

Los Angeles

Renaissance in LA Press Release:

http://huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary

_02.aspx?

id=4496

Central Avenue Revisited: Masters of

Jazz November 21, 2009 at MCLM

Central Avenue Revisted E-Flier Color

The Mayme A. Clayton Library & Museum (MCLM) maintains the largest and most academically substantial, independently held collection of rare and out-of-print books, documents, films, music, photographs and memorabilia on African American history and culture in the United States. MCLM's primary goal is to make the collection available to the public as a cultural compass to a more complete view of American history.

Our Founder, Mayme Agnew Clayton, Ph.D., (1923 - 2006) assembled the collection over a 40-year period to ensure that "children would know that black people have done great things."

It is our hope that you will explore our web site, learn about our goals and objectives, and join us in the effort to save and share a vitally important American treasure.