A 1948 Brooklyn Dodgers baseball signed by legends Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella and Malcolm X’s briefcase are just two gems from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem now on display at the main branch of the New York Public Library.

The exhibition is called 100 Years of the Schomburg Center.

What You Need To Know

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is 100 years old

It is part of the New York Public Library

An exhibition of 100 items from the Schomburg collection is on display at the NYPL main branch in Midtown, Manhattan

“The Schomburg Center is one of the largest and oldest archives that is publicly available to anyone of Black history throughout the diaspora,” Leah Drayton, senior PR manager at the center, said.

The Schomburg Center is l

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