The center's namesake, Arturo Schomburg, dedicated his life to collecting physical proof of Black achievement, to prove wrong a schoolteacher in his hometown of San Juan, Puerto Rico, who told him ...
Catherine Latimer (NYPL’s first Black librarian), Miss Lipscomb, Lawrence Reddick, and Roberta Thompson at the 135th Street Library in 1945 Named in 1940 after Arturo Schomburg, a Puerto Rican ...
History of the Schomburg Center Namesake Arturo Schomburg and Catherine Latimer, the first Black woman hired by the New York Public Library, started the research institute together 100 years ago with ...
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