The New York Public Library announced that it had acquired Arturo Schomburg's collection of more than 4,000 books, manuscripts, and artifacts in 1926, which formed the seed collection of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Schomburg, among other Black bibliophiles in the late 19th century, amassed impressive collections that served as important gathering places for Black writers and thinkers when traditional public libraries were uninterested in Black materials.
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