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Schomburg: The Man Who Built A Library

by Carole Boston Weatherford

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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.

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Book Information

Copyright year 2017
ISBN-13 9780763680466
ISBN-10 076368046X
Class Copyright
Publisher Candlewick Press
Subject
File Size 12 MB
Number of Pages 48
Language ENG
Shelf No. NA651
Grade Range 4-7
Ages 9-12
Lexile 1100L