The following year, The New York Public Library acquired the personal collection of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg. His collection included thousands of items, from prints and manuscripts to rare books ...

Among the influencers in those meetings was Arturo Schomburg, a Puerto Rican historian of African descent who, as a young child, often wondered about the lack of African history taught in his ...

The center's namesake, Arturo Schomburg, dedicated his life to collecting physical proof of Black achievement, to prove wrong a schoolteacher in his hometown of San Juan, Puerto Rico, who told him ...

Documentary exploring the life and work of the noted Puerto Rican bibliophile and historian Arturo Shomburg who devoted much of his life to collecting and documenting ...