TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sinnette,Elinor Des Verney
TI  - Arthur Alfonso Schomburg, black bibliophile & collector: a biography 
T2  - African American life series
SN  - 0814321569 (Wayne State University Press) :
AV  - Z989.S36 S56 1989
U1  - 303.3/8 
PY  - 1989///
CY  - [New York, N.Y.], Detroit, MI
PB  - New York Public Library, Wayne State University Press [distributor]
KW  - Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso,
KW  - Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
KW  - History
KW  - Book collectors
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - African American historians
KW  - Historians
KW  - African American librarians
KW  - Librarians
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Bibliography
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Libraries
KW  - Special collections
KW  - Librarianship
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Spine title: Schomburg; Includes index; Bibliography: p. 201-233; "Selective bibliography": p. 235-249; Prologue -- The Early Years -- Arthur Schomburg and the Research Societies -- Arthur Schomburg, Collector -- Arthur Schomburg and the Harlem Renaissance -- The Library, Harlem's Cultural Center -- Arthur Schomburg at Fisk University -- The Final Years -- Epilogue
N2  - "This is the first full biography of the pioneering black collector whose detective work laid the foundation for the study of black history and culture. Born in Puerto Rico in 1874, Arthur Alfonso Schomburg came to New York militantly active in Caribbean revolutionary struggles. He searched out the hidden records of the black experience and built a collection of books, manuscripts, and art that had few rivals. Today it forms the core of the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for research in Black Culture, one of the leading collections in the field. At the center of the Harlem Renaissance, Schomburg was a generous friend of many of the writers, artists, performers, collectors, scholars, and political figures who made Harlem the capital of Black America. A contributor to the major black journals of the period, he went on to head the Negro Collection at Fisk University and became curator of his own collection in the New York Public Library until his death in 1938"--Amazon
ER  -