Schomburg : the man who built a library
Title
:
Schomburg : the man who built a library
Author
:
Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- author.
ISBN
:
9780763680466
Edition
:
First edition.
Reinforced trade edition.
Physical Description
:
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Reading Level
:
1100 L Lexile
Personal Subject
:
Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938.
Corporate Subject
:
Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History.
Subject Term
:
African American historians -- Biography.
Historians -- United States -- Biography.
African American book collectors -- Biography.
Book collectors -- United States -- Biography.
Puerto Ricans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Genre
:
Biographies
Summary
:
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.
Library | Call Number | Status |
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Hardwood Creek Library (Forest Lake) | J 921 SCHOMBURG | Nonfiction Collection |
Oakdale Library | J 921 SCHOMBURG | Nonfiction Collection |
Park Grove Library (Cottage Grove) | J 921 SCHOMBURG | Nonfiction Collection |
R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury) | J 921 SCHOMBURG | Nonfiction Collection |
Stillwater Public Library | J 921 SCHOMBURG | Nonfiction Collection |
Wildwood Library (Mahtomedi) | J 921 SCHOMBURG | Nonfiction Collection |