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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First editionDescription: 37 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • Children
ISBN:
  • 9780763680466
  • 076368046X
Other title:
  • Man who built a library
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 002.075 B 23
LOC classification:
  • E185.97.S36 W43 2017
Awards:
  • School Library Journal's Best Books, 2017
  • Carter G. Woodson Book Award, Middle Level Honoree, 2018
  • The Walter Award, Younger Readers Category, 2018
Read by Ron Butler.Summary: 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.
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Read by Ron Butler.

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.

Ages 9-12.

Accelerated Reader AR LG 6.9 1 193117.

School Library Journal's Best Books, 2017

Carter G. Woodson Book Award, Middle Level Honoree, 2018

The Walter Award, Younger Readers Category, 2018