Miss Greene's Secret: Based on the true story of the Black librarian who shaped the Morgan Library

She changed her name and her past, risking everything for a chance to make her way. A remarkable graphic novel drawn from the life of Belle da Costa Greene-longtime director of the Morgan Library-who passed into white society during the Jim Crow era.

At the dawn of the twentieth century, American society continued to draw a strict racial line. Even the faintest trace of African ancestry was enough to classify a person as Black, shaping every aspect of life in a deeply segregated nation.

It wa...