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.


LibraryCall NumberStatus
Hardwood Creek Library (Forest Lake)J 921 SCHOMBURGNonfiction Collection
Oakdale LibraryJ 921 SCHOMBURGNonfiction Collection
Park Grove Library (Cottage Grove)J 921 SCHOMBURGNonfiction Collection
R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury)J 921 SCHOMBURGNonfiction Collection
Stillwater Public LibraryJ 921 SCHOMBURGNonfiction Collection
Wildwood Library (Mahtomedi)J 921 SCHOMBURGNonfiction Collection