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Historic Black library reopens in Rayne: 'This is where I learned to read and write and imagine'
The Bunche Library, which opened in 1953 and had been abandoned since the 1980s, reopened in Rayne on Juneteenth. The library brought education and imagination to the Black community of Rayne during Jim Crow Era Louisiana. "This is the library I grew …