After selling his collection, Arturo Schomburg (center) traveled to Europe where he continued researching the African diaspora. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints ...

The Schomburg Center partnered with Fisk University in Nashville for the Transcribe-A-Thon. Students joined the Schomburg Center via video as they transcribed their digitized collection of ...

One year later, the New York Public Library (NYPL) system utilized Carnegie Foundation funding to acquire Schomburg’s collection in 1926. To date, the Schomburg Center has grown to include more ...

News / Life / Entertainment Schomburg Center turns 100, exhibits collection Signature objects curated from its catalog on display ...

The list is 95 books long and focuses on titles by black authors, many whose papers are included in the Schomburg collection: Think James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Ann Petry and Harry Belafonte.

Now the Schomburg Center began with Arturo Schomburg's 10,000 item collection, we're 11 million and counting items. Lee: Wow. Lynch: Oh, no, no, no, 11 million vindicating evidences.

Next year the Schomburg Center will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its opening. The efforts of the volunteers will help the library achieve its goal to have a full digital collection.

The public library acquired a collection of Schomburg books, manuscripts, etchings, paintings and pamphlets for its Division of Negro Literature, History and Prints on W. 135th St. in Harlem ...

The Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and Art established at the NYPL’s W. 135th St. branch in 1905 is the predecessor of the current Schomburg Center.