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

Author: Alexander Crummell

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The American Negro Academy

Occasional Papers, No. 3.

CIVILIZATION THE PRIMAL NEED OF THE RACE,
The Inaugural Address,

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.

No. 1.--A Review of Hoffman's Race Traits and Tendencies of the
American Negro.--Kelly Miller 25 Cts.

No. 2.--The Conservation of Races.--W. E. Burghardt DuBois 15 Cts.

No. 3.--(a) Civilization, the Primal Need of the Race;
(b) The Attitude of the American Mind Toward the
Negro Intellect.--Alexander Crummell 15 Cts.

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Pierce Place, Washington, D. C.

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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