The u. S. Information agency that was part of our show we say cold war apparatus . [laughter] and surveying postcolonial nations and keeping an eye on things so this is a benign side of the cia published topic magazine and Richard Tsongas was a photographer here taking a picture of james brown and legos nigeria in 1970. He has an expansive body of work and we have the entire collections of the images here are they meet the description of the show which is lesserknown images across the continent starting from pittsburgh to nigeria. Its a pretty the show. There also images of malcolm x for malcolm x for example or Elijah Mohammad as a rarely seen in terms of what people would find on a Google Search for example. Lets see that Elijah Mohammad photo down here. This is Elijah Mohammad at the end, correct . Right here, big as life and there is malcolm x. This is a 1961 shot in washington d. C. With a church of god figure. Debating the merits of islam. Host do you think we could have that debate today . Guest i think we are having that debate today. Its taking place on a global scale and e we are having it. Now polite and in front of cameras well it is in front of camera so yes we are having that debate. Host off we go. Guest one other fascinating image of malcolm x as part of Richard Saunders collection. Here he is on a tour at the museum of Natural History in new york in 1961 and hes essentially using the image of an african woman to talk about people in a broader context to young muslim girls and this is also fascinating because here we are talking about the boys and this is a History Lesson being taught to young people in 1961 rated historian and sociologist. Host where we headed . Guest we are in one of the meeting rooms at the schomburg for special collections are held and we have some real treasures as part of the collection. Im honored to have this work. Host is it okay if the camera comes in . Guest the camera can get in tight rate as you can tell this is an old look. It turns out that this book is 200 years older than our country. It was published in latin verse in 1573 by juan latino who is a man of african descent in or not a spain. Yet been enslaved. He was emancipated became a scholar of grammar and publish this book. This is one of Arturo Schomburgs five possessions as part of this his original collection that came to the Schomburg Center and now in a rare book collection. Host i notice you are handling this without the white gloves. Host we are not guest we are not as whats the word, particular about that even though we care deeply about the collections. Part of it is that these materials are in the service and as much as we take great pride in preservation and make sure the books are in proper condition on not going to do any longterm damage id picking it up and turn a few pages. Host can anyone come and see the book . Guest anyone can see the bucket if they happen to read latin alba better. Host Richard Wright. Guest Richard Wright this is his first major novel native son put Richard Wright on the map in a big way. He was wrestling with some of the deep issues of poverty where they come from and how to fix and resolve them and an awful list hand. In this case First Edition by Richard Wright. Thats pretty special in and of itself with even more special that we have the manuscript of native sons of book one for all who know the book and here are the manuscript pages with Richard Wrights edit, crossed out, punctuation, different words. This is for a literary scholar a goldmine. This is exactly what they need in order to understand the vision of the book and see the difference between the final product in the editing process. Host Khalil Gibran muhammad do you have Richard Wrights entire collection . Guest we do not have Richard Wrights entire manuscript and we are proud to have the manuscript of native son. We can look it up we are library. [laughter] host continuing our tour of the rare manuscripts. Guest they know that one of the most celebrated works of a woman writer and particularly an africanamerican writer who recently departed maya angelou. Her first major runaway bestseller i know why the caged bird sings. This is the actual manuscript with her title there are in pencil caged bird inside of quotation marks. Host this is her handwriting. Very neat handwriting, precise. Guest this is her handwriting rate this is her staple. Here she is laying out the actual manuscript making her own edits and beginning to tilt this transformative story. Host her archives are here. Guest her archives are part of our permanent collection, absolutely. Host from maya angelou to this is evocative of a recent moment of slavery study several of which have appeared in the last couple of years and more particularly the Stephen Mcqueen film 12 years this late date this is the First Edition of the solomon northrop story that expired and heres the copyright page. I am turning, published in 1853. Host it got made into movie couple of years ago. Guest thats right. This work for the Schomburg Center was part of his early effort by Arthur Schomburg and his successors to find books by people in a time where exslave narratives or enslaved peoples writings were not appreciated were not valued so once we got past the abolitionist movement, pass the civil war it had very little value in the book world so Arthur Schomburg was able to capitalize on this kind of work because it wasnt expensive for mantu is very much lower to middle class in terms of his income to very much part of a burgeoning elite that was committed to this kind of cultural space. Host everything we have seen it if we walk in here today without a camera crew and credentials and said do you have Maya Angelous collection, could we see this with the archivist . Guest thats right. Thats what we were built to do. This reading room is in the service of anyone uncredentialed wanting to have access to this material to write to be inspired to make documentary films. Whatever an copyright they are entitled to have access to it. Host my guess is that married the archivist here but keep a close eye on them if they had such valuable materials. Guest are curator cared deeply for the collection and then make sure people properly handle them and use the material when it is out for use. Host dr. Mohammed where we now . Guest this is in some ways the heart and soul of the schomburg library. This is where people come every day to access the books that make up essentially so special collections with manuscripts or rare books. These are books that have been published and have come in and out of libraries but they stay here and they dont leave. Host this is probably the area for when you think of the library this is what you think of. Guest this is your traditional Library Reading room, a combination of computers. They have hightech microfilm readers and lowtech microfilm readers and a Research Area where people can go. Host besides a Research Libraries but also in Everett Library . Guest no. It can function for a neighborhood resident is a quiet place to read a book that they made poll from the collection or they may bring with them but because of the size of our investment in this kind of space pairs of Branch Library that abuts this building 100 feet from where we are standing now that is much bigger in terms of a comfortable sociable space that you basically get a new book or just hang out and read. Host what do people come here to find . Guest we are visiting the library and a special request today. Nelson is one of our librarians. Hello. Host what are people coming to look for today . Well and friday of things. They may ask for news and think of some of the requests for today. Sometimes they may be interested in malcolm x papers. Host do you get a lot of those requests . Regularly do you get those requests . Guest we have overrated for quite so malcolm x is definitely a popular one. Currently there is a demand for this world. Host marcus garveys cessation. Guest right, that would be the organization for that newspaper. Host thank you. This is a place that is committed to being able to field any question covering the african diaspora. It would be tough remembering all the Different Research questions that people have but we all Work Together and auburn is on the front lines like the other librarians who work in this division. As i said earlier that collection the book collections for schomburg always focus on the intersection of visual arts and print and cultures of this is a collection of haitian art that adorns the walls of this room. At the same time people are using 21st century tools to do research. And one other special thing i should show you. This is the caption for a body of work done by one of the most important 20th Century ArtistsAaron Douglas presenting for murals to Arthur Schomburg here and the work that was completed in 1934 as part of the wpa. Host this is Arthur Schomburg and this is all part of wpa. Guest this is all part of wpa. Host Aaron Douglas is important why . Guest Aaron Douglas is important because his style of painting and storytelling became iconic so in 1934 as part of wpa workaround murals. This angular and jagged edged way of depicting people had already been crucial to a lot of print culture coming out in the 1920s. He went on to spend the rest of his career at Fisk University but Aaron Douglass depiction and people and telling the history i chronically became associated with renaissance and on magazine and book covers and so on and so forth. Host that is aspects of nay life. Guest lets go see it create these are the closest things to the schomburgs permanent exhibition. They pretty much stay on the walls. Host Khalil Gibran muhammad and you gave us a tour and now we are on the corner of 135th and lenox. Its not as quiet and serene as the library. Guest the city that never sleeps. Host we see the brick building. Guest this is the original 1905 branch of the New York Public Library where they sovereign collection arrived in 1925 and behind that first for set of windows is the exhibition hall where we saw the jacob lawrence. This is in many ways the historic home that is this amazing institution today. Its still in use. Its still a critical part of the overall facility and it is home to many treasures that we looked at. Host the red rep building is also part of harlem hospital over there across the street. Khalil Gibran Muhammad director of the Schomburg Center thank you for your time today. Guest thank you peter, great. Host now live coverage from the harlem book fair. This annual event now and 17th years held at the Schomburg Center in harlem. All day we will bring you events on africanamerican identity, race, politics and more. First up though an author panel on economics. This is live coverage of the harlem book fair on booktv on cspan2. Welcome to this welcome to this years harlem but fair. It is such a delight to be here yet again at this amazing yet again in this amazing institution, the Schomburg Center for research in black culture. I am your director, not your director. It is incredibly important that year after year we come together and assemble in this place for an opportunity to engage the greatest minds in this nation. To wrestle with the ideas that animate the movement of our time, to really wrestle with the co to wrestle with the complexity of the world that we live in and theres no better place than the Schomburg Center to do that work. For 90 years the Schomburg Center has engaged artists writers, scholars, poets, performers and his important work of lifting up culture and history and using voice, to express a vast range of humanity and in his 90th year we are incredibly proud to yet again host the harlem book fair as an opportunity to lift up work that is critical and a moment of crisis and change. We have panels that will engage discussion about wealth and finance in civil rights america. We have conversations that will look at the history of wretchedness and racial science. We will look at the way some which africanamerican have defined their own image and shown the world the beauty within. We will also look at politics in a moment where Voting Rights the essential and gradient for citizenship and full participation in American Society is yet again on lifesupport in the United States of america and we have some of the leading minds to talk to us about that the path is forward in thiss institution i am incredibly proud to say that the people whose stories are about and the Schomburg Center have helped to expand decade after decade the meaning and practice of democracy. Thats what we do. Thats what we plan to do and thats what we will discuss today. At this time i want to thank cspan for its continuing support of this event and for live coverage here today. I also want to thank max i want to thank Max Rodriguez the creator and founder of the book fair Columbia University and the leadership of 15 of the school of arts at Columbia University for her leadership and effort in helping to build a program today that i think will inspire all a few and finally i want to thank rich. Rich is at school of the arts. He he is at the presser of anguish and has been a lead organizer in this event. Rich will come forward in just a moment to introduce our panel. And one final word. The staff of the Schomburg Center have been incredibly gracious and generous in their effort to make today a successful event and i am incredibly grateful for all of their sacrifice and continued commitment to the success of this. Thank you so much for being here today and i hope that you enjoy enjoy it as much as i will. Thank you. [applause] good morning, good morning. Before it gets started i want to introduce Max Rodriguez the founder of the harlem book fair. Thank you so much. [applause] thank you and welcome once again to the book fair 17th annual where we caught together the best of our writers, the best of our thinkers to talk about vs the community and how we see ourselves where we see ourselves going and how we might get there. I want to take a moment to thank our sponsors for the event and cspan of course the schomburg Columbia University barnes noble, colmes enterprises john colmes enterprise and the beacon hotel. Thank you so much for joining us as we continue expanding the conversation of the harlem book fair. Im happy to announce that in october we will produce the harlem book fair midwest regional in kansas city in collaboration with irene from el centro in kansas city and richard made the president of the naacp and kansas city so the conversation about we as a community through the looks and the stories we tell. I hope youll join us if you are in that area and we look forward to a very exciting 17th annual harlem book fair. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you Max Rodriguez. My name is rich from Columbia University and is my absolute pleasure to be your twoinch does the panel that will launch the harlem book fair is author panel broadcast on cspan on booktv. The panel has given staggering numbers about wealth inequality and poverty in our country which should be to my mind a national crisis. This panel is called welcome finance a supposed supports american moderated by mike colleague at columbia Damon Phillips the arabs social enterprise. He is the author on a book of emergence and evolution and publishes in top journals within management and sierra sociology. We are in good hands. Damon take it away. Thank you first of all rich for this fantastic event. This is a really fun time for me to have an opportunity to moderate this panel so i havent friended me some top scholars and i want to introduce them. Then we will do something in a discussion about the topic for the day and i will say a few words in between. Really my job here as a moderator is to facilitate the discussion and allow us all to learn from one another but also to give some insights from these fantastic scholars. So i will start on the far end with Dalton ConleyUniversity Professor that my you new york university. He holds faculty appointments in and they so show a Department School of mexico and school of public service. He has written light of few books and articles. One in particular which will be a fo