She has lectured and written extensively on Regina Anderson Andrews, the first African American to head her own branch of the New York Public Library and an active participant in the Harlem Renaissance. Whitmire’s publications include Breaking the Color Barrier: Regina Andrews and the New York Public Library and African American Undergraduates and The Academic Library. Works in progress include a book and documentary film on the life of Regina Andrews and the Harlem Renaissance and a biography of poet Audre Lorde.