Schomburg : the man who built a library / Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Eric Velasquez
Material type: TextEdition: First edition; Reinforced trade editionDescription: 45 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 31 cmISBN:- 9780763680466
- 076368046X
- Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938 -- Juvenile literature
- Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History -- Juvenile literature
- 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 -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- BIO
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Biography-Juv | MVS Library Main room-back corner | M- Biography (Juvenile) | BIO SCH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 4006013 |
Includes bibliographical references
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
Ages 9-12
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