[Gutenberg 31268] • Civilization the Primal Need of the Race, and The Attitude of the American Mind Toward the Negro Intellect / The American Negro Academy. Occasional Paper No. 3

Excerpt from Civilization the Primal Need of the Race, the Inaugural Address, And, the Attitude of the American Mind Toward the Negro Intellect, First Annual Address, Dec. 28, 1897

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