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    Civilization the Primal Need of the Race The American Negro Academy. Occasional Paper No. 3
    Civilization the Primal Need of the Race The American Negro Academy. Occasional Paper No. 3
    Civilization the Primal Need of the Race The American Negro Academy. Occasional Paper No. 3
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    Civilization the Primal Need of the Race The American Negro Academy. Occasional Paper No. 3

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      Civilization the Primal Need of the Race The American Negro Academy. Occasional Paper No. 3 - Alexander Crummell

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      Title: Civilization the Primal Need of the Race

      The American Negro Academy. Occasional Paper No. 3

      Author: Alexander Crummell

      Release Date: February 13, 2010 [EBook #31268]

      Language: English

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      The American Negro Academy

      Occasional Papers, No. 3.

      CIVILIZATION THE PRIMAL NEED OF THE RACE,

      The Inaugural Address,

      —BY—

      ALEXANDER CRUMMELL,

      MARCH 5, 1897.

      —AND—

      THE ATTITUDE OF THE AMERICAN MIND TOWARD

      THE NEGRO INTELLECT,

      First Annual Address,

      DEC. 28, 1897,

      —BY—

      ALEXANDER CRUMMELL,

      President of the American Negro Academy.

      Price, Fifteen Cents.

      WASHINGTON, D. C.

      PUBLISHED BY THE ACADEMY,

      1898.

      OCCASIONAL PAPERS.

      Orders filled through the Corresponding Secretary, J. W. Cromwell, 1439 Pierce Place, Washington, D. C.

      Trade supplied through John H. Wills, 506 Eleventh Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.

      CIVILIZATION, THE PRIMAL NEED OF THE RACE.

      Gentlemen:—

      There is no need, I apprehend, that I should undertake to impress you with a sense either of the need or of the importance of our assemblage here to-day. The fact of your coming here is, of itself, the clearest evidence of your warm acquiescence in the summons to this meeting, and of your cordial interest in the objects which it purposes to consider.

      Nothing has surprised and gratified me so much as the anxiousness of many minds for the movement which we are on the eve of beginning. In the letters which our Secretary, Mr. Cromwell, has received, and which will be read to us, we are struck by the fact that one cultured man here and another there,—several minds in different localities,—tell him that this is just the thing they have desired, and have been looking for.

      I congratulate you, therefore, gentlemen, on the opportuneness of your assemblage here. I felicitate you on the superior and lofty aims which have drawn you together. And, in behalf of your compeers, resident here in the city of Washington, I welcome you to the city and to the important deliberations to which our organization invites you.

      Just here, let me call your attention to the uniqueness and specialty of this conference. It is unlike any other which has ever taken place in the history of the Negro, on the American Continent. There have been, since the landing of the first black cargo of slaves at Jamestown, Va., in 1619, numerous conventions of men of our race. There have been Religious Assemblies,

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