SARRATT Larry Rochelle Sarratt, son of Gerutha Littlejohn Sarratt and the late Albert Lewis Sarratt, has been named interim president of the Daniel A.P. Murray African American Cultural Association of the Library of Congress.

The association was organized to promote increased awareness and appreciation of African American culture. The association is named in memory of Daniel A.P. Murray (1852-1925) who was an assistant librarian in the reading room for 44 years of his 52- year tenure at the library. During his early years at the library, Murray developed an interest in outstanding persons of African descent and began collecting materials by and about them, which he planned to publish in encyclopedic form. In 1899, he assembled a collection of 500 books, out of 1,100 he had identified, “on the progress of the Colored race in the United States since emancipation” for the 1900 Paris Exposition. He later bequeathed to the Library his own extensive collection of these works.

Sarratt works as an assistant librarian in the Law Library Reading Room. He also works at Bowie State University in the Thurgood Marshall Library as an assistant librarian. Sarratt is in the process of starting Sarratt Transportation Services in the Washington Metropolitan Area. He is also a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc.