That collection arrived at the 135th Street Public Library 90 years ago. He was a bibliophile who migrated from puerto rico in 1891 found a job on wall street work in the mailroom saves his pennies and worked really hard and bought anywhere are unique but he could find that was by or about black people. He eventually became famous for this collection. People would go to his home in brooklyn to see the library to borrow from the Library People like Langston Hughes and eventually people like and when the librarian at the library and library decided she had a lot of lack patrons coming to the library and a large immigrant community at the time she said ive got to find material for my patrons and ultimately schombergs collection of 5000 items was purchased by Carnegie Corporation and a variety of 90 years ago and made up the core of what now today is a 10 million item collection at the Schomberg Center. Host how did the Schomberg Center end up at 135th . Guest this was the settlement zone
He demanded that the group got off of the horses immediately. And so here was this group in the middle of egypt they have no idea where they were were in there is some friction sometimes with americans in egypt now but she felt like she was in a vulnerable state. After a couple of miles find their way to familiar ground. They were open to real problems. I guess thats its a long answer to say you want to makes something can crash actually in place and certainly not while you are abroad. You want to get it all taken care of before you go overseas. We want to thank everyone for coming. Very thorough information. Its my pleasure to be able to do this. Please grab a slice of pizza before you leap. Thank you very much. [applause]. In your watching book tv on cspan two. Here is a look at what is on our prime time schedule for tonight. It will kick off at about 6 45 6 45 eastern time for the lessons that they learned. And 9 00 p. M. Nadia lopez discusses her work at a school in brooklyn. In 10
During world war ii and said that this provision permits the government to criminalize and her words an entire group of people and hold them in essence and internment camps or military facilities where they can sit without ever seeing a lawyer. What is happening now, we are not in a state of crisis i dont think the state needs to employ those draconian forms of control, but should the society disintegrated, should there be the kind of unrest that we see in some European Countries like greece they certainly will bring in the military if they feel that they need the military in order to retain power, and they will use these legal mechanisms which they have created for themselves against us. Were not in a moment of crisis right now. We are in a moment of relative stability. I think they put tanks on the streets of ferguson missouri against unarmed protesters, you see glimpses of the capacity of the military state. I think we would have to be i kind of freefall for us to begin to see this
Youre watching book tv on cspan2. Heres our primetime lineup for tonight. Over the next few hours book tv breezy the international seven of the book. Panels addressing the current state of the trustee in publishing as well as the future of the book. First, a discussion titled reading is not an option with Walter Dean Myers, National Ambassador for young peoples literature. And director of the library of Congress Center for the book. This Years International summit was hosted by the library of congress and washington d. C. Earlier this year Walter Dean Myers was named as the third National Ambassador for and peoples literature this is a nonprofit arm, every child a reader. The notion of the National Ambassador would be someone who traveled the country on behalf of young peoples literature promoting it and also expanding the audience for reading in every way that we can think of. My proper today you already have. On the table in the back there is a bookmark which has walters photo and al
I would watch her finger go across the page and eventually, because the reading level of true romance was fairly low, i could pick out the words and by the time i reached the age of five, i could read to her as she a parent and as she worked. I never knew she was giving me something. I never knew she was teaching me a skill, but today i know it. Walter you want onto school for a few years, right . Right. And you are in school until what age . I was in school until i was 15. I did fairly well in school until i was 14. When i was 14 my family began to disintegrate. Had an uncle that was murdered and my father went into depression and my mom, who was became an ahca holick. Thats so completely filled my mind that my grades plummeted, but i had looks. I had the new york Public Library. Thank god for the new york Public Library. And i had books. When i had the difficulties with my mom, i found my emotional voice and portrait of the artist as a young man. His mother asked him to pray with her