Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
by Eric Velasquez
They said you have no history. He built one.
your kid needs to see what it looks like to build something out of refusal
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A teacher once told Arturo Alfonso Schomburg that Black people had no history worth studying. He spent the rest of his life proving that wrong — building one of the most significant archives of African and African American history and culture in the world, now housed in Harlem. Carole Boston Weatherford tells his story in verse, and it reads like the best kind of defiance: not rage, but accumulation. Every book found, every document preserved, every story rescued from silence was an act of saying we were here, we mattered, and you will not erase us. The Harlem Renaissance in a single life.
