Identifier: negroinamericanh00crom (find matches)
Title: The Negro in American history (microform) : men and women eminent in the evolution of the American of African descent
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Cromwell, John W. (John Wesley), b. 1846
Subjects: African Americans -- History African Americans Slavery -- United States
Publisher: Washington : The American Negro Academy
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ored Exhibits, held in New Orleans, fromNovember, 1884, to May, 1885, Mr. Bruce afforded the countryand the world the first opportunity of showing what the Negrocould do in the arts, invention and many lines of handicraft.He secured the sum of fifty thousand dollars from the manage-ment and with this he installed exhibits from colored people allover the United States. These exhibits received most favorablecomments from representative journals whose correspondentshad visited the Exposition, Physically Mr. Bruce was a splendid type of the AmericanNegro. He was above the average height, broad-shouldered anderect. His countenance and manner provoked no antagonisms,yet indicated one who while not eager to enter a contest couldbear himself manfully when in it. His entire personality har-monized with his repeated political successes achieved in the Eraof Reconstruction in Mississippi, his career on the Board of Edu-cation, as an Executive officer and in the United States Senate inWashington.
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XXVIII JOSEPH C. PRICE It is doubtful if the nineteenth century produced a superior ormore popular orator of the type that enlists the sympathies,entertains and compels conviction than Joseph C. Price. In littlemore than a brief decade he was known in Great Britain andthe United States, both on the Pacific and the Atlantic, as apeerless orator. In 1881 he first rose to eminence as a platformspeaker; in 1893 his star sank below the horizon. Yet he wasmore than orator: he was a recognized race leader; a mostpotential force in politics, though not a politician; a builder ofa great school—a most conspicuous object lesson of NegroCapabilities. His fame rests not alone upon his popularity within his ownchurch or his own race, for the evidence is conclusive that thoughunmistakably identified with the Negro, Democratic whites andwhole communities recognized his worth, highly esteemed him,honored him in life and mourned him in death. Joseph C. Price was born February 10, 1854, in one of thed

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