Schomburg: Man Who Built a Library
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In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children’s literature’s top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg’s quest to correct history.
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.
Schomburg: Man Who Built a Library
By Carole Boston Weatherford
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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.
ISBN
9780763680466
Pages
48 pages
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Published
Sep 12, 2017
Language
en
Cover type
Hardcover
Book details
- Authors
- Carole Boston Weatherford
- ISBN
- 9780763680466
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Published
- Sep 12, 2017
- Publication year
- 2017
- Pages
- 48
- Dimensions
- 12.13 in × 0.47 in × 10.13 in
- Language
- en
- Categories
- Juvenile NonfictionPeople & PlacesUnited StatesAfrican American & BlackBooks & LibrariesBiography & AutobiographyCultural, Ethnic & Regional