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"Lista de contribuyentes" [List of Contributors]. From:
Book of Minutes of the Las Dos Antillas Political Club as recorded by Arturo
Alfonso Schomburg, Secretary. 1892–1897.
NYPL, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives
and Rare Books Division
Among the Puerto Ricans politically active in New York was the young Arturo
Alfonso Schomburg (Santurce, P.R. 1874–New York 1938) who served as secretary
of the political club Las Dos Antillas, created in April 1892, until 1896. This
Puerto Rican–Cuban group, whose honorary presidents were Betances and Maceo,
sponsored speeches by separatist leaders such as José Martí. The group corresponded
with other similar groups, such as the Hijas de Betances of Philadelphia, and
its members actively contributed to the Cuban cause, as shown by the list of
donors recorded in the organization's handwritten minutes. Schomburg’s
collection of materials devoted to black history and culture became the nucleus
of what is now one of the four research centers of The New York Public Library.
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