In 1990, the lovely, new building in the picture below opened at 515 Malcom X Boulevard in Harlem. And, in 1972, the Schomburg Collection is designated a research library of the New York Public Library, becoming the The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Jeffery is an award-winning children’s book illustrator and performance poet. In 1940, two years after his death, the New York Public Library's Division of History, Literature and Prints was renamed the Schomburg Collection of Negro History, Literature and Prints. /rebates/2f97815362089792fSchomburg-Man-Who-Built-Library-15362089732fplp&. In 1931, Schomburg was invited to found Fisk University's Negro Collection. Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library a book by Carole Boston Weatherford and Eric Velasquez 24,887,075. Through his tireless efforts writing, researching and tending to his collection, Schomburg established himself as an expert and his friends and peers were a "Who's Who" of the Harlem Renaissance. Schomburg also, "navigated a maze of misinformation that stripped Africans' humanity and branded them as less than to justify slavery." In a poem titled, "Whitewash," Weatherford writes of famous historical figures, from John Audubon and Alexander Dumas to Alexander Pushkin and Ludwig van Beethoven, all of whom Schomburg discovered to have African ancestors in their family trees.
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