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Schomburg: The Man Who Built a LibraryIn 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 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
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 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.Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 09/12/2017
ISBN: 9780763680466
Pages: 48
Weight: 1.49lbs
Size: 11.80h x 9.90w x 0.70d
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2017 pg. 156
Booklist 07/01/2017 pg. 65
School Library Journal 08/01/2017 pg. 120
Publishers Weekly 08/07/2017
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2017 pg. 119
Shelf Awareness 09/22/2017
Shelf Awareness 12/19/2017
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2018 - Superior,Well Above Average
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 193117 / Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
Reading Level: 6.9 / Interest Level: Lower Grade / Point Value: 1
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