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Are at the world famous Schomburg Center for research in black culture. Why is the world famous . Because it is the most important repository to study black history founded 90 years ago. And who is pearl . He is the founding cureateer. He migrated from puerto rico and found a job on wall street working in a mail room. He worked hard and brought any rare or unique books you could find that were by or about black people eventually becoming famous for this collection. People would go to his home in brooklyn to see the library, borrow from the library, people like langston hues and hurston eventually. It arrived 90 years ago and made up the core of what is a 10 million item collection at the Schomburg Center for research in black culture. How did it end up at this location . Because this was the settlement zone, ground zero, for what came to be the negro mecca of the world. Harlem usa four blocks over. Most people today think about harlem in relation to the apollo or the baptist church. 12

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