Little Free Library 

​​On December 5, 2021, the Social Action Committee of the Los Angeles Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, opened a “Little Free Library” (LFL) for the young people within our community. A small library house was purchased and placed at the Crenshaw Family YMCA located at 3820 Santa Rosalia Drive in Los Angeles, CA. The LFL was placed within our service area to provide young readers with an opportunity to have access to free books.

After each child borrows a book from the library, the books are to be returned so that other young readers will be afforded the same opportunity. Books in our library house are on various subject matters, including but not limited to, Black History, education, arts, sciences, fiction and nonfiction.

This is a crucial time to help educate our children in a fun and engaging way. It also assists in the improvement of their reading comprehension skills, increases their knowledge of our history and teaches them responsibility when taking and returning books.

Our LFL is a continuation of the legacy of the Sorority’s commitment to reading and educating the Black community. In an effort to overcome racial barriers in the Jim Crow South, where among other things, Blacks did not have access to the same books as whites, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., launched the National Library Project in 1945. If Blacks had any libraries in the South, it was either in a separate reading room at the library or in a separate branch that was often underfunded and had inferior books. Each Delta Chapter purchased ten (10) books at $2.50 apiece, and Grand Chapter paid for the portable book baskets that would be taken to the various locations in the South. Essentially, it was a traveling library. The Los Angeles Alumnae Chapter is honored to continue this important tradition.