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Western Colored Branch in Kentucky becomes the first public library in the nation to serve African-American patrons with an exclusively African-American staff. Reverend Thomas Fountain Blue headed the African American branches of the Louisville Free Public Library. Reverend Blue was the first African American to serve as a head of a public library in the United States.