Schomburg-:-el-hombre-que-creó-una-biblioteca

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Schomburg : el hombre que creó una biblioteca

By Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- author.

Genre Biographies.

Audience Youth 0-15 years

Published 2019 by Candlewick Press, Somerville, Massachusetts

ISBN 9781536208986

Bib Id 1061642

Description 37 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm

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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cam a22 Ii 4500

ISBN

1536208981

9781536208986 (paperback) \c $9.30

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S B Schomburg W

Author

Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- author.

Uniform Title

Schomburg. Spanish