Manuscript Mondays: Barrye Brown on the Schomburg Center

Sponsored by The Manuscript Society

Manuscript Monday – A FREE Webinar provided by The Manuscript Society

Date: Monday, May 11 @ 8pm EST

Guest Presenter: Barrye Brown, Curator of Manuscripts, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

Host: Gerald “Jay” Gaidmore, The Manuscript Society

A live presentation followed by a Q & A with presenter Barrye Brown

Title: Arturo Schomburg and the Schomburg Center

Presentation Description:

Barrye Brown, Curator of Manuscripts for the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library will talk about Arturo Schomburg, an Afro-Puerto Rican bibliophile, whose collection of books, pamphlets, manuscripts, and prints established the Schomburg Center in 1926. The book, Black Studies on 135th Street: The Founding and Future of the Schomburg Collection, which Barrye co-authored with Laura Helton and Vanessa Valdés, celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Schomburg Center and dives into the collecting of Arturo Schomburg and the materials that formed the original collection.

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