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Schomburg: The Man who Built a Library books Perhaps these revelations will assistWhere is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked. Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an AfroPuerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerks lifes passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and bring to light the achievements of people of African descent through the ages. When Schomburgs collection became so big it began to overflow his house (and