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3 unusual facts about Schomburg


Schomburg

Alex Schomburg (1905–1998), prolific American commercial and comic book artist and painter whose career lasted over 70 years

Wolfgang Schomburg (born 1948), the first German Judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1874–1938), Puerto Rican historian, writer and activist in the United States


Afrocentric education

The value of Schomburg's personal collection was recognized, and it was purchased by the New York Public Library in 1926 with aid of a Carnegie Corporation grant.

Ann Plato

In 1988, Oxford University Press released The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers with Professor Henry Louis Gates as the general editor of the series.

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

Schomburg became involved in the Harlem Renaissance movement, which spread to other African-American communities in the U.S.

Claude Allen

Allen was apprehended by Germantown Target store loss prevention manager Pete Schomburg on January 2, 2006.

Opera Noire of New York

ONNY has partnered with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and New York City Opera to present rarely performed live excerpts from the operas Treemonisha, Ouanga, Four Saints in Three Acts, Till Victory is Won, Troubled in Mind, and I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky by composers John Adams, Edward Boatner, Mark Fax, Scott Joplin, Virgil Thomson, and Clarence Cameron White.


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