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Schomburg : the man who built a library
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2017.
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Summary
Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked. Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro-Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk's life's passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and bring to light the achievements of people of African descent through the ages. When Schomburg's collection became so big it began to overflow his house (and his wife threatened to mutiny), he turned to the New York Public Library, where he created and curated a collection that was the cornerstone of a new Negro Division. A century later, his groundbreaking collection, known as the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, has become a beacon to scholars all over the world.
Subjects
- African American historians > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Historians > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- African American book collectors > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Book collectors > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Puerto Ricans > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
- African American historians > Biography.
- Historians > Biography.
- African American book collectors > Biography.
- Book collectors > Biography.
- Puerto Ricans > Biography.
- African Americans > Biography.
- Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History > Juvenile literature.
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture > Juvenile literature.
- Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History.
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
- Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938 > Juvenile literature.
- Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938.