Curated teaching resource
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Arthur Schomburg Center, 515 Malcolm X Blvd)
By New York Public Library
- Collection
- U.S. Primary Sources
- Subject
- History
- Grades
- Grades 7-12
- Format
- Primary Source
- Curriculum
- Cross-curricular
- Publisher or host
- nypl.org
Why this resource is included
Hughes’s ashes are interred beneath a medallion in the floor outside the auditorium named for him. The center holds his papers and is the major archival resource for Harlem Renaissance research. In the fictional 1958 Harlem: a bookworm might visit the library and find it populated with characters from Hughes’s stories. In real-Harlem: the Schomburg is the research hub for investigating the 1958 world.