A group of Rotarians visited the Portsmouth Colored Community Library Museum in downtown Portsmouth, which has won national accolades for preserving a 900-square-foot library that once contained 10,000 books for African American citizens to read. The library was an educational hub from 1945 to 1963 when segregation ended. Rotarians learned about the roles librarian Bertha Winborne Edwards as well as I.C. Norcom High School Coach Joe Langford played in educating African American citizens. The impact of the library is summed up in this quote on the wall by social reformer Frederick Douglass: "Once you learn to read you will forever be free."