Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library

Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a trailblazing female Black special collections librarian whose power in the field, then male-dominated, was extraordinary, and in a world where the only way for that to be possible was by pretending to not be Black.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-trailblazing-black-librarian-who-rewrote-the-rules-of-power-gender-and-racial-passing-180986074/