John Edward Bruce
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John Edward Bruce, also known as Bruce Grit or J. E. Bruce-Grit, was an American journalist, historian, writer, orator, civil rights activist and Pan-African nationalist. He was born a slave in Maryla
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The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a research library of the New York Public Library and an archive repository for information on people of African descent worldwide. Located at 515
John Edward Bruce
…scholarly efforts. For the first time it brought together African, West Indian and Afro-American scholars. This later became the foundation for the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, on Lenox Avenue in Harlem. Bruce also was a mentor to Hubert Henry Harrison, the young migrant from St. Croix who became…
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
NYPL Former 135th Street Branch, Manhattan
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World War II-era WPA poster promoting use of the Schomburg Collection of the New York Public Library (Federal Art Project 1941–43)