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In 2015, ten-year-old sixth-grader [Marley Dias][2] launched the [#1000BlackGirlBooks][3] campaign and book drive to increase awareness and representation of books in which black girls are the main characters, not minor or background characters. Marley recounts her experience in an [interview with The Guardian][4], saying every single year [her school] wanted [them] to read a book about a white boy and his dog. Dias conceived of the #1000BlackGirlBooks campaign with the goal of identifying and collection 1,000 empowering books black girls. In just a few months, the project had raised more than 9,000 books.

The Internet Archive is inspired by Dias's example to help build a more inclusive educational landscape and proudly serves [more than 300 of the #1000BlackGirlBooks titles][5] in their lending library.

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  [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20170210225558/https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0212/6252/files/Marley_1024x1024.jpg?v=1486063073
  [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marley_Dias
  [3]: https://twitter.com/search?q=%231000BlackGirlBooks&src=typed_query
  [4]: https://web.archive.org/web/20200226163439/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/28/they-just-wanted-us-to-read-about-a-white-boy-and-his-dog-why-teenager-marley-dias-fought-back
  [5]: https://archive.org/details/1000blackgirlbooks
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