Schomburg: The Man Who Built A Library - 9780763680466

In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of childrenÆs literatureÆs top African-American scholars track Arturo SchomburgÆs 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 AfroûPuerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerkÆs lifeÆs 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 SchomburgÆs 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.

• | Author: Carole Boston Weatherford
• | Publisher: Candlewick
• | Publication Date: Sep 12, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 48 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Juvenile Nonfiction
• | ISBN-10: 076368046X
• | ISBN-13: 9780763680466