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Schomburg

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Schomburg Synopsis

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.

About This Edition

ISBN: 9781536208979
Publication date: 6th August 2019
Author: Carole Boston Weatherford
Illustrator: Eric Velasquez
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 48 pages
Genres: Children’s / Teenage: General interest
Children’s / Teenage general interest: Information resources
Children’s / Teenage general interest: Literature, books and writers
Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography