Arturo Alfonso Schomburg was born on January 24, 1874, in Santurce, Puerto Rico. A historian, writer, and activist of Afro-Puerto Rican and German descent, Schomburg became a pioneering collector and curator of African diaspora history. Often called the “Sherlock Holmes” of Negro history, his efforts laid the foundation for what is now the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, New York.
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