TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weatherford,Carole Boston
TI  - Schomburg: the man who built a library 
SN  - 9780763680466
U1  - BIO 
KW  - Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso,
KW  - Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - African American historians
KW  - Biography
KW  - Historians
KW  - United States
KW  - African American book collectors
KW  - Book collectors
KW  - Puerto Ricans
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Picture books
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Biographies
KW  - fast
KW  - Juvenile works
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Ages 9-12
N2  - 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
ER  -