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Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library

Cover of Schomburg: The Man Who Bui
by Carole Boston Weatherford
illustrated by Eric Velasquez
2017

In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children's literature's top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg's quest to correct history, leading to the creation of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in the New York Public Library.