Talking History
Thursday, February 07, 2008
Howard Dodson, director of the
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library, joins us on Thursdays in February to talk about African American history. This week: the bicentennial of New York's Abyssinian Baptist Church.
- The Bicentennial of the U.S. Abolition of the Slave Trade Exhitbition & Programs
- The Abyssinian Baptist Church Bicentennial Exhibition
Comments [5]
I had never heard of the Schomburg Library until 2/17/08 as I watched exerpts of Black American History. Wow! Thank God for those who want to preserve the past for the future.
I thought it was such a shame -- and a mistake -- that Reverend Butts endorsed Hillary Clinton.
And it's very interesting to learn that Schomburg was Puerto Rican! Thanks for sharing.
You cannot negelect something you are Schomburg thought of himself as Puerto Rican! So that means that he wanted to neglect himself! That makes no since. You make no since la la la la
The Puerto Rican heritage of Alberto Schomburg is also neglected by Puerto Ricans....
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the collections first won international acclaim in 1926 when the personal collection of the distinguished Puerto Rican-born scholar and bibliophile, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg. This fact is often neglected by the African American community.
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