BY ALEXANDER CRUMMELL, D. D., LL. D. ALEXANDER CRUMMELL, D.D., an eminent Negro Episcopal clergyman; a graduate of Oxford University, England; professor in a Liberian College; rect...
BY ROBERT BROWNE ELLIOT Representative from South Carolina [Note 6: Extracts from a speech delivered in the House of Representatives, January 6, 1874.] Mr. Speaker: While I am sinc...
BY W. JUSTIN CARTER of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania [Note 33: Extract from an Address delivered before the Eureka Literary Society at Penbrooke, Pa., December 16, 1904.] Mr. Chairman,...
BY HON. JOHN C. DANCY, LL.D. Secretary Church Extension Society, A. M. E. Church [Note 51: Delivered at the Celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation, Philadelphia, September, 1...
BY ALICE MOORE DUNBAR [Note 47: Delivered at Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, on the occasion of the Centenary of the birth of David Livingstone, March 7, 1913.] Hamilton Wright M...
By CHARLES W. ANDERSON, of New York [Note 24: An address delivered before the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, Nashville, Tenn., June 5, 1897.] Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:...
BY CHRISTIAN A. FLEETWOOD CHRISTIAN A. FLEETWOOD, Sergeant-Major, United States Volunteer Infantry, 1863-1866. Received a Medal of Honor from Congress for meritorious action in sav...
BY W. ASHBIE HAWKINS Of the Baltimore Bar [Note 52: An address at the opening of Howard University Law School, Washington, D. C., Oct. 1st, 1913.] Gentlemen: The legal profession i...
BY LEVI J. COPPIN, Bishop A. M. E. Church [Note 29: Delivered at Cape Town, South Africa, February 1902.] The land once lying in darkness, but now fast coming to the light, is clai...
BY WILLIAM SANDERS SCARBOROUGH, D.D., LL.D WILLIAM SANDERS SCARBOROUGH, M. A., PH. D., LL.D., President of Wilberforce University, Ohio. Author of "First Lessons in Greek," the fir...
BY PRINCE SAUNDERS [Note 1: Extracts from an address delivered at the American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race, Ph...
BY EDWARD WILMOT BLYDEN EDWARD WILMOT BLYDEN, one of the greatest scholars of the race; native of St. Thomas, West Indies. Secretary of State of the Republic of Liberia; sent on di...
BY D. WEBSTER DAVIS, D. D. of Richmond, Virginia [Note 35: Delivered at the International, Interdenominational Sunday-school Convention, Massey Hall, Toronto, Canada, June 27, 1905...
BY NATHAN F. MOSSELL, A. M., M. D. Surgeon-in-Chief, Frederick Douglass Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa. [Note 26: From Howard's American Magazine.] Those who are familiar with history...
BY W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS, PH. D. Editor and Founder "The Crisis" [Note 53: From the New York Outlook.] The responsibility for their own social regeneration ought to be placed lar...
BY PROFESSOR GEORGE WILLIAM COOK Secretary of Howard University [Note 43: An address delivered at a banquet given in his honor, May 21, 1912.] Mr. Toastmaster and Friends: Let me f...
BY JAMES MCCUNE SMITH, M. A., M. D. [Note 2: Extracts from a lecture delivered at the Stuyvesant Institute, New York, for the benefit of the Colored Orphan Asylum, February 26, 184...
BY FREDERICK DOUGLASS [Note 4: Extract from an oration delivered by Frederick Douglass at Rochester, N. Y., July 5, 1852.] FREDERICK DOUGLASS, the greatest of Negro orators, though...
BY REVERDY C. RANSOM, D. D. Editor A. M. E. Church Review [Note 36: Delivered on the occasion of the Citizen's Celebration of 100th Anniversary of the birth of William Lloyd Garris...