The negro digs up his past
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Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
Puerto Rican historian, writer and activist 1874–1938)
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg | |
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Arturo Alfonso Schomburg | |
| Born | January 24, 1875 Santurce, Puerto Rico |
| Died | June 10, 1938(1938-06-10) (aged 64) Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | Puerto Rican |
| Movement | Harlem Renaissance |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Hatcher, m. 1895–1900 (until her death) Elizabeth Morrow Taylor, m. 1902–before 1914 (until her death) Elizabeth Green, m. 1914–1938 |
Schomburg, also known as Arthur Schomburg, took an active role advocating Puerto Rico's independence. | |
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (January 24, 1874 – June 19, 1938), was a historian,[1] writer, curator,[2] and activist, who wrote numerous books.[3] Schomburg was a Puerto Rican of African and German descent. He moved to the United States in 1891, settling in New York City (at the age of 17) where he researched and raised awareness of the contributions that Afro-Latin Americans and African Americans have made to society.[4] He was an
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Arthur Alfonso Schomburg collection
1874-2014 [bulk 1920-1938]The Arthur Alfonso Schomburg Collection consists of nine typescripts authored by Schomburg as well as biographical material about Schomburg collected by the New York Public Library.
The manuscripts by Schomburg, dating from approximately 1920-1938, are typewritten articles, some annotated, primarily concerned with the history of Africans and people of African descent. The articles discuss various aspects of the African diaspora across history and geography: from ancient Egypt to pre-Columbian Central America to seventeenth-century Spain to Jazz Age Harlem nightlife. Two of the articles—"The Negro Brotherhood of Sevilla" and "Negroes in Sevilla"—were published in Opportunity magazine. Versions of "Cardinal Ximinez and Bishop Las Casas" and "The Romance of Corn" are also present in the Arthur Alfonso Schomburg Papers.
The material about Schomburg contains papers relating to Schomburg's life and family background. There is a corrected typescript of Alain Locke's memorial essay on Schomburg, written as a forewor
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Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1874–1938) was a Puerto Rican American historian, writer, curator, and activist.
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg was born in Puerto Rico in 1874, the son of a Puerto Rican merchant of German descent and an Afro-Caribbean woman from the Danish West Indies. He spent the majority of his childhood in Puerto Rico. After studying in both Puerto Rico and in the Danish Virgin Islands (now, the US Virgin Islands), he immigrated to New York City at the age of 17. As a young man in New York, he actively supported the Cuban and Puerto Rican independence movements and shortly after moving, he cofounded a political club, Las Dos Antillas. He also joined a Spanish-speaking Masonic lodge in New York, El Sol de Cuba Lodge #38.
In the early 1900s, Schomburg worked as a clerk and messenger at a variety of law firms and trust companies and eventually became supervisor of the Caribbean and Latin American Mail Section at Bankers Trust Company.
Schomburg’s interest in the history of the African diaspora stemmed from racism he experienced starting at a young age. He recal
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