Weatherford, Carole Boston. SCHOMBURG : THE MAN WHO BUILT A LIBRARY

Weatherford, Carole Boston.
SCHOMBURG : THE MAN WHO BUILT A LIBRARY
Somerville : Candlewick, 2017
IL K-3, RL 6.8
ISBN 978-0-7636-8046-6

When Arturo Schomburg was a young boy in Puerto Rico, he loved listening to the men who read to them in the cigar shop.  His love words and his curiosity was born. When he was in 5th grade, his teacher told him that his people did not have any history. As he watched his white classmates take pride in their heritage, he longed to have that same pride. And that is when he started reading and collecting everything he could find about the history of African Americans.  He moved to New York City when he was 17 but could not continue school because his school records were lost and he could not prove he had a formal education. That did not deter Arturo. He continued to read and collect information about African Americans whose accomplishments were overlooked in the mainstream education. This is a biography of an amazing man.  He believed that "the American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future ... History must restore what slavery took away."