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The Schomburg Center we know today is a result of the marriage between the 1925 New York Public Library’s response to the changing information needs of the Central Harlem community and Alfonso Arturo Schomburg’s desire to preserve and provide access to his personal collection of material documenting the African American experience.
The Division of Negro Literature, History and Prints was established at the 135th Street Branch Library in 1925, Arturo Schomburg’s collection was added in 1926.
THE AFRICAN HOLOCAUST MILLIONS MURDERED THEN & MILLIONS STARVING NOW STOLEN FROM AFRICA ONE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE GOLD OIL COPPER TIN SILVER NATURAL GAS TEA GUM PERFUME OILS BANANAS BAUXITE LAND TIMBER CHROME KOLA NUTS SOLDIERS AND TRILLIONS IN: DIAMONDS PINEAPPLES POTASSIUM PLATINUM LEATHER CATTLE COTTON ALUMINUM URANIUM COFFEE IVORY RUBBER PHOSPHATES PALM OIL LEAD SUGAR ANIMALS FISH ARTIFACTS MANGANESE COCOA IRON LABOR PEANUTS COBALT ZINC POLITICAL, ECONOMIC POWER TOBACCO LIMESTONE & MUCH, MUCH MORE “IT'S BLACK REPARATIONS TIME! REPATRIATIONS - RETRIBUTIONS & COMPOUNDED INTERESTS AND PENALTIES NOW PAST DUE AND DEMANDED FROM: PORTUGAL; ENGLAND; AMERICA (NORTH & SOUTH); BELGIUM; FRANCE; GERMANY; THE DUTCH; SPAIN; ITALY; ISRAEL; JAPAN; ARABIA; SOVIET UNION; SOUTH AFRIKAANS WORLD-TRADERS-RULERS; INDIAN MIDDLEMEN; LEBANESE MIDDLEMEN; SOUTH AFRICA AND ALL COUNTRIES, BUSINESSES AND INDIVIDUALS DOING OR WHO HAVE DONE BUSINESS WITH SOUTH AFRICA, SUCH AS U.S.A, CANADA, JAPAN, ISRAEL, EUROPE, SOUTH AMERICA, SOVIET UNION, IBM AND OTHERS; CECIL RHODES SCHOLARSHIP FUND; BARCLAY'S BANK; LLOYDS BANK; FIRESTONE RUBBER; SHELL OIL; MOBIL OIL; LEVER BROS.; DE BEERS DIAMONDS & GOLD MINES; GENERAL MOTORS; FORD MOTORS; ROTHSCHILDS; J.P. MORGAN; OXFORD UNIVERSITY: WESTMINSTER BANK; STANDARD BANK; NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK; PROCTOR & GAMBLE; GULF OIL; CADBURY & FRY; LIPTON TEA; RAND CORPORATION; NATIONAL BANK OF BELGIUM; FARRELL SHIPPING LINES; UNITED FRUIT CO; UNITED STATES STEEL; BRITISH MUSEUM OF STOLEN ART; MUSEUMS OF PARIS, BERLIN, NEW YORK; WORLD BANK; TRI-LATERAL COMMISSION, INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND; ARAB REPUBLICS OF NORTHERN AFRICA AND MANY, MANY OTHERS. YOUR PAYBACK TO AFRICA* INCLUDES MONEY - TECHNOLOGY - SCIENCE - TRADE "ALL THE WEALTH THE WHITE MAN HAS TODAY (1919) WILL NOT BE ENOUGH TO PAY THE BLACKS WHEN THE BLACKS PRESENT THEIR BILL." MARCUS GARVEY "IF YOU ARE THE SON OF A MAN WHO HAD A WEALTHY ESTATE AND YOU INHERITED YOUR FATHER'S ESTATE YOU HAVE TO PAY THE DEBTS THAT YOUR FATHER INCURRED. THE ONLY REASON THE PRESENT GENERATION OF WHITE AMERICANS ARE IN THE POSITION OF ECONOMIC STRENGTH IS THEIR FATHERS WORKED OUR FATHERS/MOTHERS FOR OVER 400 YEARS WITH NO PAY." - MALCOM X DEMAND ALL WESTERN GOVERNMENTS, CORPORATIONS, NORTH AFRICAN AND MIDDLE EASTERN ARABS AND ISRAEL IMMEDIATELY AID AFRICA'S STARVING MILLIONS WITH SELF-HELP TYPE ASSISTANCE. ALSO, TO STOP ALL ACTIVITY WHICH PROMOTES APARTHIED AND SELF-DESTRUCTIVE POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND COUPS IN AFRICA. WRITE CONGRESS TODAY - SUPPORT THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN REPARATION BILL H.R. 3745 BY CONGRESSMAN JOHN CONYERS. AS FOR YOU PERSONALLY, DO MORE TO HELP AFRICA RIGHT NOW! IT IS AFRICA THAT SUFFERED THE LOSS. THAT'S WHY WE BLACKS ARE IN THE WESTERN WORLD AND THE WESTERN WORLD IS SO WEALTHY.” - BY GOBOA WA ARATH - 01068 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED REVISED 1991
Schomburg Center Research lack Culture, New York Public Library: Examples of 'Jim Crow' Laws No person or corporation shall require white female nurses to nurse in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, where negro men are placed. Alabama Buses All passenger stations in this state operated by any motor transportation company shall have separate waiting rooms or spaces and separate ticket windows for the white and colored races. Alabama Restaurants It shall be unlawful to conduct a restaurant or other place for the serving of food in the city, at which white and colored people are served in the same room unless such white and colored persons are effectually separated by a solid partition extending from the floor upward to seven feet or higher, and unless a separate entrance from the street is provided for each compartment. Alabama Toilet Facilities, Male Every employer of white or negro males shall provide for such white or negro males reasonably accessible and separate toilet facilities. Alabama Intermarriage All marriages between a white person and a negro, or between a white person and a person of negro descent to the fourth generation inclusive, are hereby forever prohibited. Florida Burial The officer in charge shall not bury, or allow to be buried, any colored persons upon ground set apart or used for the burial of white persons. Georgia Cohabitation Any negro man and white woman, or any white man and negro woman, who are not married to each other, who shall habitually live in and occupy in the nighttime the same room shall each be punished by imprisonment not exceeding twelve (12) months, or by fine not exceeding five hundred ($500.00) dollars. Florida Juvenile Delinquents There shall be separate buildings, not nearer than one-fourth mile to each other, one for white boys and one for negro boys. White boys and negro boys shall not, in any manner, be associated together in Florida together. Mental Hospitals The Board of Control shall see that proper and distinct apartments are arranged for said patients, so that in no case shall Negroes and white persons be together. Georgia Barbers No colored barber shall serve as a barber [to] white women or girls. Georgia Parks It shall be unlawful for colored people to frequent any park owned or maintained by the city for the benefit, use, and enjoyment of white persons...and unlawful for any white person to frequent any park owned or maintained by the town for the use and benefit of colored persons. Georgia Wine and Beer, All persons licensed to conduct the business of selling beer or wine ...shall serve either white people exclusively or colored people exclusively and shall not sell to the two races within the same room at any time. Georgia Reform Schools The children of white and colored races who are committed to the houses of reform shall be kept entirely separate from each other. Kentucky, The Blind The board of trustees shall ...maintain a separate building...on separate grounds for the admission, care, instruction, and support of all blind persons of the colored or black race. Louisiana Housing Any person...who shall rent any part of any such building to a negro person or a negro family when such building is already in whole or in part in occupancy by a white person or white family, or vice versa when the building is in occupancy by a negro person or negro family, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five ($25.00) nor more ($100.00) dollars or be or more than 60 days, or imprisonment in the district Louisiana
The white man and negro wall, who are or any married to each other, who shall habitually live in and occupy in the nighttime the same room shall each be punished by imprisonment not exceeding twelve (12) months, or by fine not exceeding five hundred ($500.00) dollars. Florida Juvenile Delinquents There shall be separate buildings, not nearer than one fourth mile to each other, one for white boys and one for negro boys. White boys and negro boys shall not, in any family when such in part in occupancy family, or vice versa occupancy by a neg shall be guilty of a m thereof shall be punish twenty-five ($25.00) ► ($100.00) dollars or be or more than 60 days, c imprisonment in the dis Louisiana. LYNCHING "The government that had made the Negro a citizen found itself unable to protect him. It gave him the right to vote but denied him the protection that should have maintained that right. Scourged from his home; hunted through the swamps; hung by midnight raiders; and openly murdered in the light of day, the Negro clung to his right of franchise with a heroism that would have wrung admiration from the hearts of savages. He believed that in the small white ballot there was a subtle something that stood for manhood as well as citizenship, and thousands of brave Black men went to their graves, exemplifying the one by dying for the other.” Ida B. Wells (Barnett), Mississippi Journalist & Civil Rights Advocate.
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