Photo: Alexander Crummell (b. March 3, 1819 - 1898)
Alexander Crummell, A.B., D.D., LL.D was born March 3, 1819 inwards New York City. He was friend as well as mentor to W.E.B. Du Bois as well as an outspoken social commentator as well as clergyman in nineteenth century America. He founded the American Negro Academy as well as became a critic of his contemporary Booker T. Washington.
"His father, Boston Crummell, was the boy of a West African main inwards Timanee. On his maternal side, Crummell’s ancestors had been gratis residents inwards New York for generations," according to the Alexander Crummell Collection, published past times Scholarly Resources, Inc. His granddaddy is said to bring been a chief inside the Vey tribe of West Africa.
"And, lastly, our boys as well as girls almost universally grow upwards without trades, looking forward, if they create facial expression forward, many of them, to beingness servants as well as waiters; as well as many more, I am afraid, expecting to perish a living past times adventure as well as hap-hazard.
Doubtless some of you lot volition nation that the colored people are non the alone people at error inwards these respects; that the American people, inwards general, are running wild most the higher civilization -- are neglecting trades as well as merchanism, as well as are leaving the to a greater extent than practical as well as laborious duties of life to foreigners."
Excerpt from Civilization & Black Progress: Selected Writings of Alexander Crummell on the South, edited past times J. R. Oldfield, p. 136, University Press of Virginia (Charlottesville as well as London), from The Publications of the Southern Texts Society Collection (First Edition 1995).
Photo: American Negro Academy Members includes a seated W.E.B. DuBois.
Crummell's American Negro Academy was an association of Africans from some the world. It was among the early on societies of global Africans that would associate for progress of African people. The academy would advocate the “Talented Tenth” concept afterward articulated inwards Earth writings of W.E.B. DuBois, i of the academy's founding members. Crummell's members inwards Republic of Liberia as well as Sierra Leone would pave the agency for W.E.B. DuBois edifice associations betwixt Blacks inwards America as well as Blacks inwards Africa.
Further reference: "Encyclopedia of Missions," past times Harry New-comb; as well as inwards a sketch called "Africa inwards Brief," past times the Rev. J. J. Coles, missionary to the Vey tribes inwards Africa.
Further reference: "Encyclopedia of Missions," past times Harry New-comb; as well as inwards a sketch called "Africa inwards Brief," past times the Rev. J. J. Coles, missionary to the Vey tribes inwards Africa.
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