[laughter] >> guest: i'm the new-ish director of the schomburg center this harlem which is part of the new york public library system, as you know. it's been great, we've had some great announcements. we just got the james baldwin papers which we announced in april, and we've just announced two days ago the sonny roll lins papers. so we're really excited to have those archives come home to harlem and be part of the cultural life there which we've been there 92 years in harlem on the same corner, 35th and lennox, now malcolm x boulevard, and we're really happy to have those materials and those essences come back to harlem. >> host: you say the schomburg is part of the new york public library system, but what's the focus many. >> guest: the focus is african-american and african diaspora, cultural life from history to art to photographs, everything. we have about 11 million items relating to the diaspora on worldwide black culture. i think that's what makes us unique, is both our age -- we started in 1925 as the negro division of the new york public library and carnegie libraries which is

. >> heinemann do director of the schomburg center i have been there since december it has been great if we just announced two days ago you papers and we are excited to have those archives come to be a part of the schomburg center for the we have been at the same quarter and 82 years. we are happy to have those. >> what is the focus?. >> african american diaspora from history to art to photographs, everything on world wide black culture so we started 1925 in the negro division of the d york public library the carnegie library is still steve the nimby got the bay national historic landmark in jiri so we are coming full circle and so we looked at the harlem of renaissance and then to be born in hot harlem ended to have them come home is big. >> i was a professor 20 years university and there i was archived as well. but i am also a poet and a brighter with one previous nonfiction book and from there i was interested in the subject of liars and american history to. >> it comes from politics arguing over the of missouri compromise someone in north carolina said then they start to use of po

[laughter] >> guest: i'm the new-ish director of the schomburg center this harlem which is part of the new york public library system, as you know. it's been great, we've had some great announcements. we just got the james baldwin papers which we announced in april, and we've just announced two days ago the sonny roll lins papers. so we're really excited to have those archives come home to harlem and be

so it's good to go to the schomburg eventually take a look at all those letters and get an understanding of how he was in touch, what was going on in this country, and then at last with the civil rights movement jumped off in full-blown form yet to come back to be a part of it, particularly the march in washington in 1963. >> host: herb boyd, what was your connection or is your connection to malcolm his family? >> guest: i need a drink of water on that one. >> host: you go right ahead. while you're doing that let me introduce the program to our viewers. this is booktv at c-span2's monthly program where we invite one author on to document his or her body of work. this month it is author and professor and historian herb boyd. mr. boyd has written many books beginning in 1994, african history for beginners 1995 black panthers for beginners cannot hurt down the glory road also came out in 1995, contributions of african americans in u.s. history and culture. brother man which is been featured on booktv, the odyssey a black man in america, an anthology came out in 95. "autobiography of a peopl