Description In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children\'s literature\'s top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg\'s quest to correct history.
Born in Harlem, he lives and works in Hartsdale, New York..
Eric Velasquez is also the author-illustrator of the Pura Belpré Illustrator Award-winning Grandma\'s Gift.
He won the John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award for his illustrations of The Piano Man, written by Debbi Chocolate.
Eric Velasquez is the illustrator of numerous books for children, including several previous collaborations with Carole Boston Weatherford.
Carole Boston Weatherford lives in Highpoint, North Carolina.
Her numerous books for children include the Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor Book Becoming Billie Holiday, illustrated by Floyd Cooper, and the Caldecott Honor Books Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, illustrated by Kadir Nelson, and Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, illustrated by Ekua Holmes.
About the Author Carole Boston Weatherford is a New York Times best-selling author and poet.
A century later, his groundbreaking collection, known as the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, has become a beacon to scholars all over the world.
When Schomburg\'s collection became so big it began to overflow his house (and his wife threatened to mutiny), he turned to the New York Public Library, where he created and curated a collection that was the cornerstone of a new Negro Division.
This law clerk\'s life\'s 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.
Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro-Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg.
Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked.
Description In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children\'s literature\'s top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg\'s quest to correct history
