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Author Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- author.

Title Schomburg : the man who built a library / Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Eric Velasquez.

Publication Info. Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2017.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Children's Department  J 92 SCHOMBURG    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 920 SCHOMBURG    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Children's Department  J-B SCHOMBURG    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department  JB SCHOMBURG    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Children's Department  JB Schomburg    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Children's Department  J BIO SCHOMBURG    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Children's Department  J BIO SCHOMBURG    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Children's Department  PEOPLE & PLACES E SCH    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Children's Department  JB SCHOMBURG W    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Pearl Street Branch Library - Children's Biographies  J B SCHOMBURG    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Reinforced trade edition.
Description 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Summary Traces legal clerk Arturo Schomburg's efforts to curate a collection of African books, letters, music, and art.
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Subject Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938 -- Juvenile literature.
African American historians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Historians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African American book collectors -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Book collectors -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Puerto Ricans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938.
African American historians.
Historians.
African American book collectors.
Book collectors.
Puerto Ricans.
African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
ISBN 9780763680466 (lib. bdg.)
076368046X (lib. bdg.)
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