“Pride of race is the antidote to prejudice.”

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

The Schomburg Corporation is a nonprofit organization that provides support to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The major mission of this Corporation includes but is not limited to assisting the Center’s financial efforts, the acquisition, housing and preservation of primary informational data that document the Black experience. The Corporation shall additionally strive to develop, implement and participate in activities that will heighten public awareness about the Center. The mission of the Corporation is and shall always remain compatible with the mission of the Center.

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“The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as the one country where it is unnecessary to have a past, what is a luxury for the nation as a whole becomes a prime social necessity for the Negro. For him, a group tradition must supply compensation for persecution, and pride of race the antidote for prejudice. History must restore what slavery took away, for it is the social damage of slavery that the present generation must repair and offset.”
— Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

“The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left their teacher's lips, the subject has been forgotten.”