Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
About this resource
- Appropriate grades
- 6–12
- Subjects
- arts (art history, crafts, dance, folk art, music), English language arts (folklore), second languages (cultural awareness), social studies (Africa, African Americans, United States history, women, world history), diverse learners (race and culture)
- Provider
- New York Public Library
- Special requirements
- Quick Time for some portions
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"Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - A national research library devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world. Today, the Schomburg Center contains over 5,000,000 items and provides services and programs for constituents from the United States and abroad."
- Digital Exhibits include:
- African Burial Ground: Africans in America
- In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
- African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
- Images of African Americans from the 19th Century
- Studies Dedicated to Fernando Ortiz (1880-1969): A Bibliography of Afro-Cuban Culture
- Malcolm X: The Search for Truth
- Harlem 1900-1940: An African American Community
- The African Presence in the Americas, 1492-1992
- Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery
- Selec ted Clips from the Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project note: video clips are best viewed using Quick time
- The Schomburg Legacy: Documenting the Global Black Experience for the 21st Century
- Various collections that make up the digital library can also be accessed, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division Finding Aids
Other resources include access to library catalogs, information about exhibitions, both permanent and traveling, and access to the work of current and past scholars-in-residence.
