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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture > Exhibitions The Schomburg Legacy: Documenting the Global Black Experience for the 21st CenturyFrom May 12, 1996 through December 30, 1996 See related Online Exhibition.
The last in a series of three exhibitions at the Schomburg Center commemorating the Library's Centennial and the Center's 70th anniversary, this exhibition focuses on the development of the Schomburg Center's collections since Arturo Alfonso Schomburg served as curator. Among the approximately 300 items on view are personal papers of artists and public figures including Nobel peace laureate Ralph Bunche and singer Lena Horne. Unique objects exemplifying the collections' diversity and geographic scope range from a 7th- or 8th-century Egyptian Coptic tunic to a Pullman porter's uniform. Works of important writers and artists represented in the exhibition include the original manuscripts of Richard Wright's Black Boy and original art by painter Romare Bearden. |
