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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org.ezproxy.uindy.edu/oclc/1003192774 Title: Schomburg : the man who built a library Author: Carole Boston Weatherford; Eric Velasquez Publisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2017. ©2017 ISBN/ISSN: 9780763680466 076368046X OCLC:1003192774

  
  

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Schomburg : the man who built a library

Author:	Carole Boston Weatherford; Eric Velasquez
Publisher:	Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2017. ©2017
Edition/Format:	Print book : Biography : Juvenile audience : English : First editionView all editions and formats
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.  Read more...
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Subjects	Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, -- 1874-1938 -- Juvenile literature. Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History -- Juvenile literature. African American historians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. View all subjects
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