Civilization and Black Progress: Selected Writings of Alexander Crummell on the South

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University of Virginia Press, 1995 - 265 psl.
Friend and mentor to W. E. B. Du Bois, outspoken critic of Booker T. Washington, and founder of the American Negro Academy, Alexander Crummell (1819-1898) played a pivotal role in later nineteenth-century debates over race and black intellect. Yet compared with the widely available texts of Du Bois and Washington, Crummell's speeches and publications remain relatively inaccessible. Here, for the first time, is a full scholarly edition of Crummell's most significant writings on the South. The eighteen texts that J. R. Oldfield has assembled cover the last twenty-three years of Crummell's life, when he was at the height of his influence as both an Episcopal minister and president of the ANA. All of the pieces, directly or indirectly, are concerned with the fate of Southern blacks in the areas of politics, education, religion, gender, and race relations. Oldfield provides a thorough biography of Crummell in his introduction, as well as detailed annotations to the text, tracking down often-obscure sources for Crummell's numerous quotations. Additionally, Oldfield prefaces each address with a concise statement of its immediate context and its importance to Crummell's work as a whole. More specific publication information is listed in an Appendix. As this collection makes clear, Crummell's writings speak in the elegant and scholarly voice of a transitional figure who bridged two radically different worlds separated by the bloodshed and upheaval of the Civil War.

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Introduction I
1
Editorial Method
27
The Social Principle among a People and Its Bearing on Their Progress
29
The Destined Superiority of the Negro 133
43
The Assassination of President Garfield
54
The Dignity of Labour and Its Value to a New People
65
A Defence of the Negro Race in America from the Assaults on Charges of Rev J L Tucker D D of Jackson Mississippi
78
Her Neglects and Her Needs
101
Common Sense in Common Schooling
134
An Address before the Garnet Lyceum of Lincoln University
143
The Best Methods of Church Work among the Colored People
155
The RaceProblem in America
163
Incidents of Hope for the Negro Race in America
174
At Hampton Institute 1896
185
Civilization the Primal Need of the Race
195
The Prime Need of the Negro Race
200

Excellence an End of the Trained Intellect
114
The Need of New Ideas and New Aims for a New Era
120
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