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Historic Black Brooklyn: Years of Struggle and Hope
Historic Black Brooklyn: Years of Struggle and Hope, by Brian Merlis and Clarence Taylor (Brooklyn, NY: Israelowitz Publishing, )
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg was born in Puerto Rico in and after being told by his fifth-grade teacher &#;there is no Black history&#; he promptly dedicated his life to documenting that which didn&#;t exist.
In he was paid $10, for his collection, which more than doubled the entire Black history collection of the NYC Public Library.
The biography of brookyln
Mr. Schomburg promptly used the $10, payment to finance additional collection work overseas. It is estimated that his contribution included 5, books; 3, manuscripts; 2, etchings and paintings; and several thousand pamphlets. He would later become curator of the collection in its home at the library branch on th Street in Harlem, which has vastly expanded from its original building (where both Langston Hughes and Ho Chi Minh studied) as it now houses over 11 million items and