» Jan. 24, 1874: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Born Zinn Education Project

» Jan. 24, 1874: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Born Zinn Education Project:

We need the historian and philosopher to give us with trenchant pen, the story of our forefathers, and let our soul and body, with phosphorescent light, brighten the chasm that separates us. We should cling to them just as blood is thicker than water.
―Arthur Schomburg

Born on this day in Puerto Rico in 1874: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (Jan. 24, 1874-Jun. 8, 1938), bibliophile, collector, writer, and a key intellectual figure in the Harlem Renaissance, spent his life championing black history.