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The Brian Lehrer Show

Talking History

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


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Posted by: AC
February 07, 2008 - 10:49AM
Queens

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.

[2]
Posted by: lala
February 07, 2008 - 10:59AM
brooklyn

The Puerto Rican heritage of Alberto Schomburg is also neglected by Puerto Ricans....

[3]
Posted by: AC
February 07, 2008 - 11:33AM
Queens

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

[4]
Posted by: Ann
February 07, 2008 - 12:11PM
NYC

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.

[5]
Posted by: Paige Searcy
February 18, 2008 - 05:04PM
north carolina

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.

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