☰

Children's Books

Education & Reference

Books & Libraries

Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library

Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library

In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of childrenâ€™s literatureâ€™s top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburgâ€™s 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 Afroâ€“Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerkâ€™s lifeâ€™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 Schomburgâ€™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.
Country USA
Brand Candlewick Press
Manufacturer Candlewick
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber localization_076368046X
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2017-09-12
UnitCount 1
Format Picture Book
EANs 9780763680466

You might also like...