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Schomburg : the man who built a library
Record details
- ISBN: 076368046X
- ISBN: 9780763680466
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Physical Description:
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2017.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Kenton County.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Covington Branch | J B S369w (Text) | 33126022194421 | Display | Available | - |
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- Baker & Taylor
Luminous paintings and evocative poems by two of the literary world's top African-American scholars trace the efforts of Afro-Puerto Rican legal clerk Arturo Schomburg's efforts to curate a collection of African books, letters, music and art. - Random House, Inc.
In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of childrenâs literatureâs top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburgâs 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 AfroâPuerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerkâs lifeâs 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 Schomburgâs 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.