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The John Cotton Dana Award was created to replace the Wilson
Publicity Honor Roll, a three-year plan sponsored by the H.W. Wilson Company and the ALA Public Relations Committee. The first Honor Roll recipients were named in 1940 and this inaugural class consisted of 52 libraries. The Honor Roll was
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Initially, two awards were presented: the John Cotton Dana Awards and the John Cotton Dana
Special Awards. These two awards were combined into a single award beginning with the 1996 winners. The awards were streamlined to eliminate any misconceptions that the Special Award was a less significant
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awarded from 1940 to 1942. In 1942, at the ALA's Annual
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Discussion Group and the Library Lecture Series, two programs which "attracted large numbers of whites into the Savannah State College campus for the first time".
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