The K. Leroy Irvis Room is a first floor reading room that is also home to the archives of K. Leroy Irvis who was the first African American to serve as a speaker of the house in any state legislature in the United States since Reconstruction. Irvis represented Pittsburgh in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1958 to 1988. Included in the archives are Irvis' personal papers, legislative materials, campaign literature, photographs, and newspaper clippings.
The K. Leroy Irvis Room is a first-floor reading room that also houses the archives of K. Leroy Irvis, who was the first African American to serve as speaker of the house in any state legislature in the United States since Reconstruction. Irvis represented Pittsburgh in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1958 to 1988. The archives include Irvis' personal papers, legislative materials, campaign literature, photographs, and newspaper clippings.