Phinazee, Annette Lewis Hoage, 1920-1983.

Library science educator; native of Orangeburg, S.C.; received BA from Fisk University, BSLS and MSLIS from the University of Illinois, and DLS from Columbia University; first African-American woman to earn the doctorate in library science from Columbia University; taught at Atlanta University, 1946-c. 1970; became Dean of the North Carolina Central University School of Library Science, 1970; first African-American president of the North Carolina Library Association; grandfather or father, W.C. Lewis, was secretary of the Orangeburg County Colored Fair Association; married George Lafayette Hoage (1944) and Joseph Phinazee (1962).

From the description of Annette Lewis Phinazee papers, 1931-1969. (South Carolina State University, Miller F. Whittak). WorldCat record id: 47038816