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Arturo Alfonso Schomberg

Schomburg who is known as "The Father of Black History.", a self-described "Afroborinqueño" (Afro-Puerto Rican) was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico (now part of San Juan to María Josefa, a freeborn Black midwife from St. Croix, and Carlos Féderico Schomburg, a mestizo merchant of German heritage. Image File history File links Arturo Alfonso Schomburg File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Arturo Alfonso Schomburg File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... San Juan is the capital city of Puerto Rico. ... Midwifery is a blanket term used to describe a number of different types of health practitioners, other than doctors, who provide prenatal care to expecting mothers, attend the birth of the infant and provide postnatal care to the mother and infant. ... A separate article treats the several rivers known as the St. ... Mestizo (Portuguese, Mestiço; Canadian French, Métis: from Late Latin mixticius, from Latin mixtus, past participle of miscere, to mix) is a term of Spanish origin used to designate the peoples of mixed European and Amerindian racial strain inhabiting the region spanning the Americas, from the Canadian prairies in...

Biography

Schomburg was educated at San Juan's Instituto Popular, where he learned commercial printing, and at St. Thomas College in the Danish-ruled Virgin Islands, where he studied Negro Literature. During grade school one of his teachers claimed that blacks had no history, heroes or accomplishments; this patently false claim inspired Schomburg's life-long quest to find the truth and to document the accomplishments of African-Latinos, such as Jose Campeche and later of Afro-Americans. José Campeche (1751-1809), was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. ...

Schomburg immigrated to New York on April 17, 1891 and settled down in the Harlem section of Manhattan; here he continued amassing the information needed to untangle the African thread of history in the fabric of the Americas. After experiencing racial discrimination, he began calling himself "Afroborinqueño" which means "Afro-Puerto Rican". He became a member of the "Revolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico" and took an active role advocating Puerto Rico's and Cuba's independence. State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki (R) Official languages None (English is de facto) Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ... April 17 is the 107th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (108th in leap years). ... 1891 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Harlem is a neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, long known as a major African American cultural and business center. ... Manhattan is an island bordering the lower Hudson River. ... World map showing location of Africa A satellite composite image of Africa Africa is the worlds second_largest continent in both area and population, after Asia. ... Map of the Americas by Jonghe, c. ...

In 1892 he became a Mason, joining the Spanish-speaking El Sol de Cuba Lodge 38, were he was Elected Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge in 1918. On June 30, 1895 he married Elizabeth Hatcher of Staunton, Virginia and they had three sons, Maximo Gomez, Arthur Alfonso Jr. and Kingsley Guarionex. the Square and Compasses Freemasonry is a worldwide fraternal organization. ... June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 184 days remaining, and the last day of June. ... 1895 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Staunton may refer to several things: Places Staunton, Illinois Staunton Township, Illinois Staunton, Indiana Staunton Township, Ohio Staunton, Virginia Staunton, Gloucestershire People Imelda Staunton, a British actress Howard Staunton, an English chess master who lends his name to a style of chess pieces Sir George Staunton, an English botanist who... State nickname: Old Dominion Other U.S. States Capital Richmond Largest city Virginia Beach Governor Mark R. Warner (D) Official languages English Area 110,862 km² (35th)  - Land 102,642 km²  - Water 8,220 km² (7. ...

He began teaching Spanish in New York in 1896. After Elizabeth died in 1900, he married Elizabeth Morrow Taylor of Williamsburg, North Carolina. They were married on March 17, 1902 and also had two children Reginald Stanton and Nathaniel Jose Schomburg. From 1901 to 1906 Schomburg was employed as messenger and clerk in the law firm of Pryor, Mellis and Harris, New York City. In 1906 he began working for the Bankers Trust Company. Later he became a supervisor of the Caribbean and Latin American Mail Section until he left here in 1929. State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki (R) Official languages None (English is de facto) Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ... March 17 is the 76th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (77th in Leap years). ... 1902 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

In 1911, Schomburg co-founded with John Edward Bruce the "Negro Society for Historical Research". He was also to become the President of the American Negro Academy which championed black history. Schomburg became involved in the "Harlem Renaissance" movement, which spread to other African-American communities in the U.S. John Edward (Bruce), also known as Bruce Grit (1856 - 1924) was born a slave in Maryland, USA. John Edward Bruce (22 February 1856 to 7 August 1924), journalist, historian, writer, orator, and Pan Afrikan nationalist, was born in Piscataway, Maryland, to enslaved parents Robert and Martha Allen (Clark) Bruce. ... The Harlem Renaissance was a flowering of African-American and culture based in the African-American community forming in Harlem in New York City (USA). ...

Between 1931 and 1932 Schomburg served as Curator of the Negro Collection at the library of Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee. During 1932 he traveled to Cuba and whilst there he met various Cuban artists and writers, and acquired more material for his studies. Later he became the curator of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and Art, 135th Street Branch, The New York Public Library. Fisk University is a historically black college in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. It is the oldest college in the state. ... For other cities named Nashville, see Nashville (disambiguation). ... State nickname: Volunteer State Other U.S. States Capital Nashville Largest city Memphis Governor Phil Bredesen (D) Official languages English Area 109,247 km² (36th)  - Land 106,846 km²  - Water 2,400 km² (2. ...

He was granted an honorary membership of the Men's Business Club in Yonkers, New York. He also held the position of treasurer for the Loyal Sons of Africa in New York and was elevated being the past master of Prince Hall Lodge Number 38, F.A.M. and Rising Sun Chapter Number 4, R.A.M. Yonkers, just north of New York City in Westchester County, is the fourth largest city in the U.S. state of New York, with a population of 196,086 (according to the 2000 census). ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki (R) Official languages None (English is de facto) Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ... Prince Hall (c. ...

Following dental surgery Schomburg became very ill and died in Madison Park Hospital, Brooklyn, New York on June 8, 1938 ; he is buried in Cypress Hills Cemetery in Brooklyn. A map highlighting Brooklyn and the rest of New York City. ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki (R) Official languages None (English is de facto) Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ... June 8 is the 159th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (160th in leap years), with 206 days remaining. ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Cypress Hills Cemetery, the first nonsectarian cemetery corporation organized in the Brooklyn/Queens area of New York, is located at 833 Jamaica Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. ... A map highlighting Brooklyn and the rest of New York City. ...

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg's work has served as an inspiration to Puerto Ricans, Latinos and Afro-Americans alike. The raised awareness of the great contribution that Black Latinos and Afro-Americans have made to society, as result of Schomburg's work, sowed the base for future generations to establish the Civil rights movement. Civil Rights Movement in the United States, political, legal, and social struggle to gain full citizenship rights for African American and to achieve racial equality. ...

Works

Schomburg's first known article, "Is Hayti Decadent?", was published during 1904 in "The Unique Advertiser." In 1909 he wrote "Placido, a Cuban Martyr," a short pamphlet about the poet and independence fighter Gabriel de la Concepción Valdéz. He was the co-editor of the 1912 edition of Daniel Alexander Payne Murray's "Encyclopedia of the Colored Race". The Republic of Haiti is a country situated on the western third of the island of Hispaniola and the smaller islands of La Gonâve, La Tortue (Tortuga), Grande Caye, and Ile a Vache in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba; Haiti shares Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic. ... 1912 is a leap year starting on Monday. ... Daniel A. P. Murray Daniel Alexander Payne Murray (1852 or 1853-1925) Assistant librarian, Library of Congress; bibliographer, author, politician, and historian was the son of a freed slave. ...

He wrote the essay "The Negro Digs Up His Past" which was published in the Survey Graphic of Harlem in March, 1925. The essay would later be included in the book The New Negro edited by Alain Locke; this essay was also so influential on John Henrik Clarke that at aged seventeen he left home in Columbus, Georgia to seek out Mr. Schomburg to further his studies in African history. Alain LeRoy Locke (1886-1954) was born on September 13, 1886, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania He was an American educator, writer, and philosopher, and is best remembered as a leader and chief interpreter of the Harlem Renaissance. ... John Henrik Clarke (1915-1998) born John Henry Clark was a Nationalist, Pan-Africanist, author, poet, historian, lecturer and teacher. ... Columbus is a city located in Muscogee County, Georgia. ... World map showing location of Africa A satellite composite image of Africa Africa is the worlds second_largest continent in both area and population, after Asia. ...

Schomburg had amassed a world renowned collection which consisted of artworks, manuscripts, rare books, slave narratives and other remnants of Black history. So impressed was the New York Public Library with Schomburg's collection that the Carnegie Corporation purchased it from him for $10,000 to form the cornerstone of the Library's Division of Negro History at the 135th Street Branch in Harlem. The proceeds from the sale were used to fund travel to Spain, France, Germany and England, to seek out other pieces of black history to futher add to the collection. New York Public Library, central block, built 1897–1911, Carrère and Hastings, architects (June 2003) The New York Public Library (NYPL), one of three public library systems serving New York City, is one of the leading libraries in the United States. ... Harlem is a neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, long known as a major African American cultural and business center. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ...

Another collection of documents which belonged to Schomburg, can be found at the Schomburg Center in New York.

See also

• List of famous Puerto Ricans - Educators and Scientists

This is a List of famous and notable Puerto Ricans in alphabetical order by last names, where applicable. ...

External links

• Schomburg (Arthur A.) Papers, 1724-1895 (1904-1938)
• NYPL, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
• The Arthur A. Schomburg Papers
• HISTORY NOTES: ARTHUR ALFONSO "AFROBORINQUENO" SCHOMBURG
• The Negro Digs Up His Past
• The Negro Digs Up His Past
• Arthur Alfonso Schomburg