# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dorothy-b-porter
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:34:13.902Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dorothy-b-porter"
name: "Dorothy B. Porter"
slug: "dorothy-b-porter"
description: "Dorothy Louise Porter Wesley was a librarian, bibliographer and curator, who built the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University into a world-class research collection. She was the first African American to receive a library science degree from the Columbia University School of Library Service. Porter published numerous bibliographies on African American history. When she realized that the Dewey Decimal System had only two classification numbers for African Americans, one for slavery and one for colonization, she created a new classification system that ordered books by genre and author."
tagline: "American librarian (1905-1995)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dorothy_Porter%2C_6-2-70_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1905-05-25"
deathDate: "1995-12-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.79
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.879806666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ڈوروتھی بی پورٹر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AB%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D9%8A._%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "دوروثي بي. بورتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دوروثى بى. بورتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_B._Porter"
    title: "Dorothy B. Porter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_B._Porter"
    title: "Dorothy B. Porter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_B._Porter"
    title: "Dorothy B. Porter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_B._Porter"
    title: "Dorothy B. Porter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Porter_Wesley"
    title: "Dorothy Porter Wesley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_B._Porter"
    title: "Dorothy B. Porter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5298301"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump