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Op-Ed: As Arthur A. Schomburg Showed, Black History is Human History

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (Photo courtesy Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / New York Public Library)In the Virgin Islands and on Puerto Rican soil over 100 years ago, a child was born who gave his contribution to Black history. His name was Arthur A. Schomburg, born in 1874 to Mary Joseph, a woman of color, and into a well-known family of St. Croix in the Danish West Indies. His father was Carlos Federico Schomburg, a merchant on the island of Puerto Rico.

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