Harlem’s Schomburg Center Celebrates 90th Anniversary with Midtown Gala
(DNAINFO)  Gustavo Solis — The Public Library is celebrating the 90th Anniversary of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, not in the neighborhood, but at their 42nd Street branch.
On Monday, the library on Fifth Avenue hosted an anniversary gala at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. On Tuesday and Wednesday they imported selected items from the research library on 135th Street and set up a special exhibit.
The collection includes the manuscript from Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings,†Malcolm X’s journal and Qur’an, and telegrams from Langston Hughes congratulating Lorraine Hansberry on her A Raisin in the Sun opening night.