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In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children’s literature’s top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg’s quest to correct history.
Where is our historian to present us our side? Arturo asked.
Amid the students, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro–Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk’s life’s passion was once to assemble books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and bring to light the achievements of people of African descent during the ages. When Schomburg’s collection become so big it all started 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 once the cornerstone of a new Negro Division. A century later, his groundbreaking collection, referred to as the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, has turn into a beacon to scholars in all places the world.