Sunday, February 7, 2010

Negro Library Neglected

Black Buzz New Service
February 7 ,2010
Black Chronicle
New York,N.Y.
Feb.2,1948-- Two elderly Negro women recently rushed into the New York Public Library's 135th street branch, and volunteered to do anything they could to save the collection. They were relieved to discover that the Arthur C. Schomburg Collection, special library of Negro literature, history and art, was not actually being destroyed; it was suffering from neglect.
Former curator Dr. L.D. Reddick has for some time been charging publicly that inadequate funds threatened the library's existence. The women apparently misinterpreted his remarks.The neglect has been laid to city officials and Public Library authorities.
In 1926, the collection was donated to the city by the Carnegie Foundation, which had purchased it from Mr. Schomburg.

*Blogger Black Buzz's family visited "The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, in the Harlem section of New York City in 2009 and they reported that the Schomburg Center still suffers from benign neglect and lack of adequate funding from the City of New York, private foundations and the Black community.

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