| 1904/00/00 |
Charles Follen McKim |
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Charles Follen McKim designs a three-story library building the Italian Renaissance Palazzo for 135th Street in New York City. |
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| 1905/07/14 |
Carnegie Corporation |
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New York City's 135th Street branch library opens with 10,000 books and the librarian in charge is Gertrude Cohen. |
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| 1920/00/00 |
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Ernestine Rose becomes the branch librarian. She quickly integrates the all-white library staff. Catherine Allen Latimer, the first Black librarian hired by the NYPL, is sent to work with Rose as is Roberta Bosely months later. |
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| 1921/00/00 |
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135th Street branch library host an exhibition of African-American art in Harlem. It will become an annual event. |
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| 1921/09/05 |
Langston Hughes |
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At the Harlem Branch Library just up the street. There, a warm and wonderful librarian, Miss Ernestine Roe, white, made new comers feel welcome, as did her assistant in charge of the Schomburg Collection, Catherine Latimer, a luscious cafe au lait. - LH |
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| 1922/00/00 |
Nella Larsen |
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Nella Larsen begins working NYC's 135th Street branch library as an assistant. She will be promoted to children's librarian in 1924. |
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| 1923/00/00 |
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Regina M Anderson begins her job as a full-time clerk in the 135th Street library. |
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| 1924/00/00 |
James Weldon Johnson |
Attendee |
In late 1924, Ernestine Rose host a meeting, with attendees including Arturo Schomburg, James Johnson, Hubert Harrison, that decides to focus on preserving rare books, and solicit donations to enhance its African-American collection. |
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| 1925/05/08 |
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135th Street branch becomes the Division of Negro Literature, History and Prints, a division of the NYPL. |
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| 1926/00/00 |
Carnegie Corporation |
Benefactor |
Ernestine Rose and the National Urban League convince the Carnegie Foundation to buy Arturo Schomburg's collection of African-American literature for $10,000 and then donate the books to the library. |
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| 1929/00/00 |
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Arturo A Schomburg becomes the curator of his collection of literature on art, slave narratives, and other materials of African and American history. |
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| 1929/00/00 |
W E B Du Bois |
Champion |
After letters of support for Regina Anderson, when she felt she is being discriminated against by not being promoted, by W E B Du Bois and Walter White, and a boycott of the library by White, Regina is promoted and moves to the Rivington Street branch. |
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| 1929/00/00 |
Walter F White |
Champion |
After letters of support for Regina Anderson, when she felt she is being discriminated against by not being promoted, by W E B Du Bois and Walter White, and a boycott of the library by White, Regina is promoted and moves to the Rivington Street branch. |
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| 1940/10/00 |
Lawrence D Reddick |
Work |
Under Dr Lawrence D Reddick, curator of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature, the 'Division of Negro History, Literature and Prints' is renamed the 'Schomburg Collection of Negro History and Literature'. |
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| 1967/05/22 |
Langston Hughes |
Died |
Langston Hughes dies in the Stuyvesant Polyclinic in New York City from complications after abdominal surgery related to prostate cancer. His ashes are interred beneath a floor medallion in the foyer of the new Schomburg Center building. |
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| 1980/00/00 |
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The new Schomburg Center building is constructed at 515 Lenox Avenue. |
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