Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-27
AMERICAN NEGRO ACADEMY.
Sixth Annual Meeting to Be Held in
This City Next Week.

The sixth annual meeting of the American
Negro Academy will be held at Lincoln
Memorial Church in this city Monday ano
Tuesday, December. % and 80. The Negro
Academy was organized March 5, 1897, the
day after President McKinley's first inau-
guration. Several years prior to this, now
ever, several leading colored men met ano
agreed that such am organization was great
ly needed for the benefit of the negro race
and decided to issue a, call for meetlng u
the best known students of their race. AS
a result of this meeting the plans for the
formation Of the academy were perfected
and the organization followed. The meet
ing to be held here next week will be one
OF the most important in the history of the
academy. The program includes addresses
from some of the best known men Of the
race in the country.
OF those on the program may be named
Bishop BENJAMIN T. Tanner of Philadelphia
who will read a paper on The Genesis OF
the Negro Church. is a native of western
Pennsylvania, a graduate OF the western
Theological Seminary at Alleghany. For
sixteen years he was the editor of the Chris
tan Recorder and founder of the A. NJ E.
Review, and is the author of several works.
w E. Burghardt Dubois, Phi. D., of Har-
ward, is one of the foremost literary
scholars of his years and soc1ologlst OF
SSee
harrington, Mass, and graduate of Fisk
and Harvard Universities. He spent sew
eral years abroad. He has been a. member
Of the faculty of Wllberforce, and is now
professor of history and economics at At
ianta University. Bishop Alexander Wal
tiers of the A. M E. Zion Church is well
known and all movements looking to the
growth and development of his race, or pro-
noting their interests, whether In the as
sertion of their political rights or co-opera-
ton in efforts to give tone to public opinion,
have in him an able champion.
Rev. Orishatukeh Faduma, as his name
implies, is a native of Africa who. after
pursuing advanced university studies in
London came to the United States. matric-
ulated and graduated from the Yale Uni
versity School, in which he took high rank,
especially for his excellence in Arabic.
Chaplain T. G. Steward of the 18th United
States Infantry is a graduate of the Epis-
copal Divinity School of Philadelphia and
an author of several theological works, and
is referred to as being as skilled with pen
as he is ready with tongue. AIR. VIM. ID.
Ferris a graduate of Yale and Harvard, is
a young man who is stated to have shown
remarkable talent in grasping scientific
truth Rev. Matthew Anderson is the pas
tor of the Berean Presbyterian Church of
whose school former President Cleveland
presided and Booker I. Washington spoke
two weeks ago.
The academy at present numbers thirty
seven members. me oHlcerS are: w. =.
Dubois, president; Kelley Miller; Rev. j.
Albert johnson, VIM. III. CroSman and Rev.
Matthew Anderson, vice presidents; j. w.
Cromwell, corresponding secretary; Rev. F.
J. Grimke, treasurer. The executive COM
mittee, all of whom live in Washington,
are Kelley Miller, Rev. F. j. Grimke, John
L. Love, w. B. Hayson and John w. Crom-
well.
Other resident members are: George
Lightfoot, c. c. Cook of the faculty of
Howard University, and Justice of the
Peace Robt H. Terrell.