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Houston Mayor Touts LibrariesLee P. Brown, the newly elected mayor of Houston—and the first African-American mayor in the city's history—not only promoted libraries in his inaugural address, but he attended two library events his first week in office. "My vision is of a Houston in which every child is handed a library card instead of a beer, joint or a pill," he said at his January 2 inaugural. "Books were the first rungs on the ladder I, like many others, used to climb out of poverty," he continued. On his first day in office, January 3, Brown helped dedicate the Houston Public Library's Williamson/Kessler Board Book Center at the Central children's room; he also spoke at a kickoff of a "Born to Read" program January 6. Posted January 26, 1998. |
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