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Schomburg : The man who built a library / Carole Boston Weatherford.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: SoundPublisher: Holland : Dreamscape Media, 2017Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 1 online resource (1 audio file) : digitalContent type:
  • spoken word
Media type:
  • audio
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781520087283 (sound recording)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 921 SCH
Other classification:
  • JNF007050 | JNF018010 | JNF063000
Online resources: Narrator: Ron Butler.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 to bring to light the achievements of people of African descent throughout the ages. When Schomburg's collection became so big that 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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Unabridged.

Narrator: Ron Butler.

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 to bring to light the achievements of people of African descent throughout the ages. When Schomburg's collection became so big that 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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