Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Civilization the Primal Need of the Race, and The Attitude of the American Mind Toward the Negro Intellect The American Negro Academy. Occasional Paper No. 3

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,...