Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library [SCM]

by Carole Boston Weatherford Author

(from the back cover) Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro-Puerto Rican man named Arturo Schomburg. His life's passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from African and bring to light the achievements of African descent. When his collection became so large that it threatened to overflow his house, he turned to the New York Public Library.