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| Arturo Alfonso Schomburg |
Day 15 of this exploration of the Harlem Renaissance we look at Arturo Alfonso Schomburg. He is yet another figure that has an extensive wiki article so I will just post a short intro here:
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, also Arthur Schomburg (January 24, 1874 – June 8, 1938), was a Puerto Rican historian, writer, and activist in the United States who researched and raised awareness of the great contributions that Afro-Latin Americans and Afro-Americans have made to society. He was an important intellectual figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Over the years, he collected literature, art, slave narratives, and other materials of African history, which was purchased to become the basis of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, named in his honor, at the New York Public Library (NYPL) branch in Harlem.
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Schomburg is another figure like L.S. Alexander Gumby who took the time to collect documentation of the history of Americans of African decent to preserve our unique narrative on this continent. I am so intrigued by these figures and their dedication to keeping our story. It makes me wonder if Johnson Publishing even took people like these and how valuable their contribution was into consideration when they decided to sell their archives. I really wish they would open some kind of museum like what was done with Schomburg's and Gumby's legacy.
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