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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture > Exhibitions Arturo Alfonso Schomburg: Race ManFrom May 20, 1995 through February 29, 1996
Objects from the 10,000-item private library of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, the foundation of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, illustrated how Schomburg documented and preserved the histories and heritages of peoples of African descent and their place in the making of world civilization. Included in the exhibition was one of the rarest books in the world, the 16th-century Ad Catholicum, by Juan Latino, the earliest imprint by an African author in the Schomburg Center. Schomburg's dedication to the encouragement of scholars and artists was demonstrated by the 1937 gouache on paper entitled The Curator (Arthur A. Schomburg) by Jacob Lawrence. |
