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	Arturo Alfonso Schomburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Schomburg immigrated to New York on April 17, 1891 and settled down in the Harlem section of Manhattan; here he continued amassing the information needed to untangle the African thread of history in the fabric of the Americas.
		From 1901 to 1906 Schomburg was employed as messenger and clerk in the law firm of Pryor, Mellis and Harris, New York City.
		Schomburg became involved in the Harlem Renaissance movement, which spread to other African American communities in the U.S. He was the co-editor of the 1912 edition of Daniel Alexander Payne Murray's Encyclopedia of the Colored Race.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arturo_Alfonso_Schomburg (831 words)

	Harlem 1900-1940: Schomburg Exhibit Arturo Schomburg
		Arturo Alfonso Schomburg was born in Puerto Rico on January 24, 1874.
		Schomburg became a Mason and met bibliophile and journalist John Edward Bruce.
		Schomburg fully shared his knowledge of the history of peoples of African descent with the young scholars and writers of the New Negro movement.
	www.si.umich.edu /CHICO/Harlem/text/aschomburg.html (381 words)

	Arthur Alfonso Schomburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Schomburg was born on January 24, 1874, to Carlos Federico Schomburg, a German-born merchant, and Mary Joseph, a fl midwife and washer woman.
		Schomburg was preoccupied with his own heritage and is said to have become curious about his past through a literary club in Puerto Rico, where history was a favorite topic of discussion.
		Schomburg's close relationship with Charles Spurgeon Johnson, who had headed the Department of Research and Investigations for the National Urban League and edited the league's official journal, Opportunity, and by 1928 chaired the Social Science Department at Fisk University, led to Schomburg's position in 1929 as curator of the Negro Collection in the university library.
	www.africawithin.com /bios/arthur_schomburg.htm (2110 words)

	UB: The Graduate School: Scholarships & Fellowships
		Recipients of Arthur Alfonso Schomburg Graduate Fellowships are required to complete a minimum of one semester at the master's level and a minimum of two semesters at the doctoral/professional level (based upon departmental guidelines) of an academic, research, or service practicum during the period in which they receive funding.
		Arthur A. Schomburg was born in Puerto Rico on January 24, 1874.
		Schomburg's earliest causes in New York were understandably those of Puerto Rican and Cuban liberation from the burdens of Spanish colonialism and of greater freedom and respect for men of color within those two societies.
	www.grad.buffalo.edu /costs/schomburg.php (1757 words)

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		Arthur Alphonso Schomburg's obsession with making fl history "less a matter of argument and more a matter of record" was his signal impact on the struggle "repair and offset" the damages of slavery and racism in America and throughout the world.
		Schomburg is acknowledged for his influence as a prominent bibliophile and collection of African-American print material and artifacts.
		Schomburg was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on January 24, 1874.
	www.hometoharlem.com /harlem/HTHcult.NSF/notables/8babc3b1781f8fbd8525661800538318 (337 words)

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		Arthur Alfonso Schomburg was born on January 24, 1874 in San Juan, Puerto Rico to a fl mother and white father (who abandoned the household).
		In 1911, Schomburg and John Bruce founded the influential "Negro Society for Historical Research" and in 1922 he was elected president of the "American Negro Academy", the first major organization of the fl intelligentsia.
		Schomburg's obsession with making fl history "less a matter of argument and more a matter of record" and to "restore what slavery took away" makes this self-taught lonely visionary of indomitable spirit one whom the world of fl scholarship will forever be immensely indebted.
	www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us /diversity/arthur.htm (870 words)

	Schomburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Arthur A. Schomburg was born on this date in 1874.
		Schomburg was from San Juan, Puerto Rico; he attended San Juan's Institute of Instruction to become a teacher and also studied in the Danish West Indies, doing a great deal of research on Negro literature.
		Schomburg came to America in 1891 and ten years later moved to New York City, working at a law firm as a researcher.
	diadelaetnia.homestead.com /Schomburg.html (293 words)

	ARTHUR ALFONSO "AFROBORINQUENO" SCHOMBURG
		Schomburg spent nearly a decade as a militant activist in the liberation movements of Puerto Rico and Cuba.
		In numerous statements, Schomburg called for Puerto Rico to be neither a colony of Spain nor of the United States, anticipating the issue that would not be resolved until the long-awaited statehood plebiscite of 1994.
		Schomburg explored the remnants of an African colony in Seville, Spain, demonstrating the ubiquity and accomplishment of Africans at the mutual root of the Afro-Latino dilemma in this hemisphere: colonial Europe.
	www.cwo.com /~lucumi/schomburg.html (1432 words)

	Newhouse A1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Arthur Schomburg is best known for collecting books and other documents of the African diaspora that now reside at the Harlem center that bears his name.
		Schomburg was born in Puerto Rico in 1874.
		Sixty-five years after Schomburg's death at age 64, the themes of his life and work seem remarkably current, proof of the porousness of what are too often regarded as ironclad categories of race, ethnicity and culture.
	www.newhouse.com /archive/tilove022003.html (1391 words)

	Gale Schools - Black History Month - Literature - About The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Schomburg continued to augment the collection and also served as an unpaid consultant to the library, addressing staff meetings and assisting young scholars.
		In a reorganization the Schomburg Collection was designated as part of the research libraries of the New York Public Library in 1972, and its name was changed to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
		In the tradition established by Schomburg, the center continues to be a repository for materials documenting fl life and a participation in the evolution of fl culture.
	www.galeschools.com /black_history/literature/schomburg.htm (916 words)

	SCHOMBURG CENTER CELEBRATES 75th ANNIVERSARY Ebony - Find Articles
		Currently, the Schomburg is celebrating its 75th anniversary with a year-long series of programs, events and exhibitions that herald the global Africana experience and showcase the Center and its vast collection.
		Arthur A. Schomburg (1874-1938), a Black Puerto Rican who emigrated to New York in 1891, was the visionary whose personal crusade gave birth and a name to the Center.
		Arthur Schomburg himself was tapped to head the division from 1932 until his death in 1938, when the division was renamed in his honor.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1077/is_1_56/ai_66455754 (784 words)

	History Research Guide: Schomburg Clippling File
		The Schomburg Clipping File is a massive collection of over 14,200 microfiche from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library.
		The Schomburg Center is a leading research institution for African-American studies in the United States.
		Arthur Schomburg (1874-1938), a native of Puerto Rico, was a bibliophile, curator, scholar, lecturer, and author who amassed the most extensive collection of African-American research materials of his day.
	www.lib.jmu.edu /history/shombrg.aspx (298 words)

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		During his lifetime, collector and bibliophile Arthur Schomburg (1874–1938) amassed a remarkable collection of books, prints, and manuscripts documenting the fl experience in Africa, the western hemisphere, and the world.
		Schomburg’s correspondents included a number of prominent individuals in the fields of arts and letters, politics, and civil rights.
		Schomburg’s files contain a rich variety of other material that adds new perspectives to research on fl culture in Africa, North America, and the Caribbean.
	www.lexisnexis.com /academic/2upa/Aaas/ManuscriptSchomburgCenter_pf.asp (2369 words)

	Welcome to the Schomburg Gallery
		Susan Schomburg opened the Schomburg Gallery at Bergamot Station Arts Center in 2001 after almost a decade of working on Melrose Avenue, as a research director for William A. Karges Fine Art, the veteran L.A. dealer of California Impressionism and later as the Director of Edenhurst Gallery, where she specialized in early California Impressionist paintings.
		Schomburg's April 2002 show of Domenic Cretara's paintings of the OJ Simpson murder trial attracted television news coverage for the opening -- a rare occurrence for an art opening.
		Schomburg Gallery was also featured on national Russian television for an exhibition of historic and contemporary Russian oil paintings.
	www.schomburggallery.com /susan.htm (364 words)

	ARTHUR (in MARION) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Arthur; a short sketch of his life and history in English verse.
		Arthur : a short sketch of his life and history in English verse of the first half of the fifteenth century.
		Arthur and Emmeline : abridged from the masque of King Arthur.
	www-catalog.cpl.org /MARION?T=ARTHUR (115 words)

	Aetna: African American History Calendar: 1987: Arthur Alfonso Schomburg
		In response to a teacher's remark that fls had no history, Arthur Schomburg began lifelong research on the subject and produced one of the world's most extensive collections of books, periodicals, photographs, and historical documents by and about fls.
		Born in Puerto Rico, Schomburg moved to New York at age 17 where he put his research skills to work at a law firm and subsequently began a long and successful career at Banker's Trust Company.
		Schomburg was named curator of the library's division of Negro Literature, History and Prints in 1932.
	www.aetna.com /foundation/aahcalendar/2006/1987schomburg.html (287 words)

	Arthur - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		ARTHUR [Arthur] king of Britain: see Arthurian legend.
		Psychology of a king: Arthur in the Lancelot-Graal cycle.(Critical essay)
		Arthur Alfonso Schomburg (1874-1938): embracing the fl motherhood experience in love of fl people.(Biography)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-x-a1rthur.html (161 words)

	Gale Schools - Black History Month - Biographies - Arthur A. Schomburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Schomburg was a member of the New York Puerto Rico Revolutionary Party and served as secretary of the Cuban Revolutionary Party.
		Schomburg, who died in 1938, collected thousands of works on fl culture over his life time.
		In 1973 the collection became known as the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History, the name was later changed to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
	www.galeschools.com /black_history/bio/schomburg_a.htm (186 words)

	Annotated Bibliography
		“The Migrations of Arturo Schomburg: On Being Antillano, Negro, and Puerto Rican in New York 1891-1938”.
		Schomburg’s namesake is an extension of this library, so additional care and attention to detail may have been employed.
		She tells her own personal experiences with Schomburg to give a feel of what Schomburg was like in person.
	www.tcnj.edu /~tevingt2/annotated_bibliography.htm (1087 words)

	Guide Introduction: The Arthur A. Schomburg Papers
		Arthur A. Schomburg served as curator of the Arthur A. Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and Art from 1932 until his death in 1938.
		The Arthur A. Schomburg Papers (1724-1938) reflect his activities as researcher, writer, collector, and curator.
		The collection consists of correspondence, published and unpublished writings, articles about Schomburg and the Negro Collection at the 135th Street Branch, subject and reference files, and material relating to his many speaking engagements and activities in the community and on behalf of the collection.
	www.lexisnexis.com /academic/guides/african_american/manusc_coll_schomburg/schomburg.asp (980 words)

	TV: 'RESEARCH FOR THE SOUL' - New York Times
		The Schomburg, properly known as the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, is certainly America's, and possibly the world's, foremost repository for source material on fl history.
		And between the interviews, which are conducted by Charlayne Hunter-Gault, are fleeting glimpses of the collection and of the man who began it -the late Arthur Schomburg.
		Schomburg, however, is almost peripheral to the documentary, which is a testimonial to his work.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9A05E3DB123BF932A15751C0A965948260 (299 words)

	The Schomburg - Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Harlem, New York, New York - includes related articles ...
		Named for ardent bibliophile Arthur Schomburg, the Schomburg Collection was renamed the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in 1972, when it was designated one of the New York Public Library's four research facilities.
		A portion of the funds for that fight were donated to the Schomburg by Maya Angelou and Oprah Winfrey.
		For many donors, the decision to entrust the Schomburg with their papers or with the papers of a family member is not merely a vote of confidence in the center's preservation skills; it is also an acknowledgment of the center's accessibility and its importance to the African-American community.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1546/is_n2_v8/ai_13861859 (889 words)

	Arthur Alfonso Schomburg - Black Bibliophile and Collector - A Biography - Elinor Des Verney Sinnette
		Born in Puerto Rico in 1874, Arthur Alfonso Schomburg came to New York militantly active in Caribbean revolutionary struggles.
		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.
	wsupress.wayne.edu /africana/afrhistory/sinnetteaas.htm (248 words)

	About the Collector: Derrick Joshua Beard
		Arthur Schomburg’s work lives on in place of the man: I only hope that I have been a worthy successor to him in my small part of the fl book-collecting world.
		Along with Schomburg, Charles S. Seifert would become one of the profound influences on young John Henrik Clarke through his work with the Harlem YMCA History Club, which would later be renamed the Edward Blyden Society in honor of the late Pan-African intellectual.
		It is somewhat a coincidence that during the time Arthur Schomburg became the curator of the Harlem branch of the New York Public Library, Bella da Costa Greene was serving as curator of the collection of wealthy banker J. Pierpont Morgan in the same city.
	www.broward.org /library/bienes/lii13001.htm (6093 words)

	Exhibition archive - Jacob Lawrence - Norton Museum of Art - West Palm Beach Florida
		In reaction to this bigotry, the scholar and bibliophile Arthur A. Schomburg, over a 30 year period, assembled a vast collection of books, manuscripts, prints, drawings and ephemera, all in some way describing and detailing the richness of the African-American experience.
		Schomburg's holdings were eventually acquired by the New York Public Library and housed in the Harlem branch, where they were repeatedly consulted during Lawrence's research of Toussaint L'Ouverture and throughout the execution of his 1937-38 series devoted to the Haitian revolutionary.
		Lawrence's experience with the Schomburg collection led the artist to embrace fl history as a crucial theme in his work.
	www.norton.org /exhibitions/archivelawrence.htm (1136 words)

	Foote, Arthur William - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		FOOTE, ARTHUR WILLIAM [Foote, Arthur William] 1853-1937, American organist, teacher, and composer, b.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Foote, Arthur William" at HighBeam.
		(Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Harlem, New York, New York) (includes related articles on Schomburg director Howard Dodson and founder Arthur Alfonso Schomburg)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-foote-a1r.html (297 words)

	Arthur A. Schomburg: A Literary Historian-Black History Daily
		Arthur A. Schomburg was born January 24, 1874 in San Puerto Rico to a German father and a West Indian mother.
		In 1911, Arthur and John E. Bruce founded the Negro Society for Historical Research as a base from which to publish fl articles.
		Arthur's Library is the largest and most important collection of African-American art, literature and history in the world.
	www.blackseek.com /bh/2001/09_ArthurSchomburg.htm (303 words)

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		Howard Dodson is also an author who wrote "The Black New Yorkers: The Schomburg Illustrated Chronology," published in 1999 and most recently wrote, "Jubilee: The Emergence of African-American Culture," which traces African American culture from its genesis in American slavery through emancipation to the turn of the 20th Century.
		Arthur Schomburg, a Puerto Rican of African descent, who came to the United States in 1891, and for whom the Schomburg Center was named, would be proud of the work Howard Dodson has done in his name.
		Schomburg was an amazing man as is Howard Dodson, who has been able to preserve Schomburg's collection while adding his own personal style to the Center, a designate that will reflect the accomplishments of both men for years to come.
	www.eurweb.com /printable.cfm?id=14507 (1419 words)

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