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Schomburg

by Carole Boston Weatherford

Illustrator: Eric Velasquez

Ages: 9+

Published: 2017

Publisher: Candlewick Press

ISBN: 978-0-7636-8046-6

Keywords: Libraries, Harlem, Puerto Ricans

Arturo Schomburg's life and work researching and collecting black historical and cultural materials is depicted in free verse poetry and vivid oil paintings. Back matter.