Historian and scholar Charles L. Blockson is remembered
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Temple University held a memorial tribute on Tuesday for the architect behind some of the country's most prestigious collections of African American artifacts. His family had a private funeral service for him when he died in June, but Temple waited until the new school semester started to honor him publicly.
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Blockson was founder and curator emeritus of both the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection at Temple University and the Charles L. Blockson Collection of African-Americana and the African Diaspora at Penn State University.