![]() While the structure is unique, the writing is engaging and sound, and the artwork is flat-out gorgeous, there are factual points that are concerning. ![]() ![]() In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children's literature's foremost African-American scholars track the journey of Arturo Schomburg and his quest to correct and expand the historical record for generations to come.īeautifully illustrated but of questionable accuracy, this brief middle-grade illustrated book uses Arturo (Arthur) Schomburg's biography and passion for academic study of Africana to uncover quieted names in world history. ![]() A century later, it is the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture-and a beacon for scholars all over the world. When his collection became so large that it threatened to overflow his house, he turned to the New York Public Library.Īt the time, the collection, with Schomburg as curator, was the cornerstone of a new Division of Negro History, Literature and Prints. His life's passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora in order to bring to light the achievements of people of African descent. ![]() Where is our historian to give us our side, Arturo asked, to teach our people our own history?Īmid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro-Puerto Rican man named Arturo Schomburg. ![]()
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