Posts by Serena Torres

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century: Digital Project Gets a New Life

 by Serena Torres, Librarian II/Processing Archivist, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
March 1, 2021
The Schomburg Center is excited to announce a new project which brings together digitized books by 38 African American women writers of the nineteenth century, biographies for each writer, and a list of online resources that will lead to further discovery and advanced knowledge of these incredible authors.
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Dear Oscar Micheaux

 by Serena Torres, Librarian II/Processing Archivist, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
October 26, 2020
The Manuscripts Archives and Rare Books Division reveals the papers of pioneer filmmaker, Oscar Micheaux.
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Artifacts From the Arthur Ashe Archive

 by Serena Torres, Librarian II/Processing Archivist, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
January 26, 2015
The artifacts component consists of a Presidential Medal of Freedom, Head Competition Racquet, lapel pins, buttons, jewelry, medals, badges, trophy, awards, flags, and other miscellaneous items that illustrate the life and career of Arthur Ashe from the 1960s through the early 1990s.
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