Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library write by Carole Boston Weatherford. This book was released on 2020-10-06. Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A must-read for a deeper understanding of a well-connected genius who enriched the cultural road map for African Americans and books about them.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro–Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk’s passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and bring to light the achievements of people of African descent through the ages. A century later, his groundbreaking collection, known as the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, has become a beacon to scholars all over the world. In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children’s literature’s top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg’s quest to correct history.
Arthur Alfonso Schomburg, Black Bibliophile & Collector
Arthur Alfonso Schomburg, Black Bibliophile & Collector - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arthur Alfonso Schomburg, Black Bibliophile & Collector write by Elinor Des Verney Sinnette. This book was released on 1989. Arthur Alfonso Schomburg, Black Bibliophile & Collector available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A biography of the pioneering collector whose work laid the foundation for the study of black history and culture.
BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom
BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom write by Carole Boston Weatherford. This book was released on 2021-02-23. BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a moving, lyrical tale about the cost and fragility of freedom, a New York Times best-selling author and an acclaimed artist follow the life of a man who courageously shipped himself out of slavery. What have I to fear? My master broke every promise to me. I lost my beloved wife and our dear children. All, sold South. Neither my time nor my body is mine. The breath of life is all I have to lose. And bondage is suffocating me. Henry Brown wrote that, long before he came to be known as Box, he “entered the world a slave.” He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next — as property. When he was an adult, his wife and children were sold away from him out of spite. Henry Brown watched as his family left bound in chains, headed to the deeper South. What more could be taken from him? But then hope — and help — came in the form of the Underground Railroad. Escape! In stanzas of six lines each, each line representing one side of a box, celebrated poet Carole Boston Weatherford powerfully narrates Henry Brown’s story of how he came to send himself in a box from slavery to freedom. Strikingly illustrated in rich hues and patterns by artist Michele Wood, Box is augmented with historical records and an introductory excerpt from Henry’s own writing as well as a time line, notes from the author, and a bibliography.
Diasporic Blackness
Diasporic Blackness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diasporic Blackness write by Vanessa K. Valdés. This book was released on 2017-03-15. Diasporic Blackness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the life of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg through the lens of both Blackness and latinidad. A Black Puerto Ricanborn scholar, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (18741938) was a well-known collector and archivist whose personal library was the basis of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library. He was an autodidact who matched wits with university-educated men and women, as well as a prominent Freemason, a writer, and an institution-builder. While he spent much of his life in New York City, Schomburg was intimately involved in the cause of Cuban and Puerto Rican independence. In the aftermath of the Spanish-Cuban-American War of 1898, he would go on to cofound the Negro Society for Historical Research and lead the American Negro Academy, all the while collecting and assembling books, prints, pamphlets, articles, and other ephemera produced by Black men and women from across the Americas and Europe. His curated library collection at the New York Public Library emphasized the presence of African peoples and their descendants throughout the Americas and would serve as an indispensable resource for the luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance, including Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. By offering a sustained look at the life of one of the most important figures of early twentieth-century New York City, this first book-length examination of Schomburgs life suggests new ways of understanding the intersections of both Blackness and latinidad.
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer write by Carole Boston Weatherford. This book was released on 2018-12-24. Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A 2016 Caldecott Honor Book A 2016 Robert F. Sibert Honor Book A 2016 John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award Winner Stirring poems and stunning collage illustrations combine to celebrate the life of Fannie Lou Hamer, a champion of equal voting rights. “I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.” Despite fierce prejudice and abuse, even being beaten to within an inch of her life, Fannie Lou Hamer was a champion of civil rights from the 1950s until her death in 1977. Integral to the Freedom Summer of 1964, Ms. Hamer gave a speech at the Democratic National Convention that, despite President Johnson’s interference, aired on national TV news and spurred the nation to support the Freedom Democrats. Featuring vibrant mixed-media art full of intricate detail, Voice of Freedom celebrates Fannie Lou Hamer’s life and legacy with a message of hope, determination, and strength.
