The American Negro Academy was organized by Rev. Alexander Crummell on March 5, 1897, in Washington, D.C. Charter members included Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the distinguished poet, and W.E.B. Du Bois, who succeeded Crummell as president of the black brotherhood of academics in 1908. The American Negro Academy brought together persons of African ancestry from around […]

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