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RARE AMERICAN NEGRO ACADEMY PAPERS
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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) AMERICAN NEGRO ACADEMY.
Group of 12
“Occasional Papers.”
Various paginations; small 4tos, original wrappers; some stamps
etc. Condition varies.
SHOULD BE SEEN
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Washington, D.C. 1898-1930
[1,000/1,500]
Despite some damage, or lack of the wrappers of several numbers, these pamphlets represent the work
of some of the greatest African American scholars of any era. Founded in Washington D.C. by 78-
year-old Reverend Alexander Crummell, the American Negro Academy was an organization of black
intellectuals dedicated to the promotion of higher education, the arts, and science for African Americans
as part of the overall struggle for racial equality. This group of their Occasional Papers includes:
Alexander Crummell’s 1898 paper “Civilization the Primal Need of a Race;” the Inaugural
Address of the Academy; “Alexander Crummell, an Apostle of Negro Culture” (Ferris); “The
Educated Negro and His Mission” (Scarborough); “The Demand and Supply of Increased Efficiency
in the Negro Ministry;” “The Ballotless Victim of One Party Politics” (Grimke); “Modern
Industrialism and the Negroes of the United States” (Grimke); “Peonage” (Hershaw); “Papers of the
American Negro Academy for 1915” (six studies); “The Ultimate Criminal” (Grimke); “Charles
Sumner Centenary” (Grimke); “The Negro and the Elective Franchise, a Series of Papers” by six
members of the Academy; “A Comparative Study of the Negro Problem,” by Charles C. Cook; and
“The Disfranchisement of the Negro” by John L. Love.
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(CIVIL RIGHTS—KU KLUX
KLAN.) ARKANSAS.
Constitution,
Kloran and Kreed of the Women of
the Ku Klux Klan.
Uniform tall, narrow
12mo; 82, 36, 1 pp. Original printed gray
wrappers and single page of tan paper,
printed on one side only.
Little Rock, AR: Imperial Headquarters,
1923
[400/600]
FIRST PRINTINGS OF ALL THREE ITEMS
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The Klan, formed in the South after the Civil
War by Nathan Bedford Forrest and others to
combat Carpetbaggers and the ascendancy of
the Negro in Southern politics, became both
irrelevant as well as simply outdated by first
decade of the 20th century. The Klan was
reformed in 1915 and became much more
active than it had ever been before, with
branches, or “Klaverns” all over the country,
including strong Klan presence in upstate New
York and New England. Also new was the
strong role for women in the Klan as these
three items show.
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