The Twin City star., 1911-12-02
SELECT SOCIETY
!. FOR RESEARCH
Unique Plan by Which to Trace
History Of the Race.
new LIGHT ON CID SUBJECTS.

new LIGHT ON CID SUBJECTS.
Organization Made Up Of Well In.
formed Students Has For It's Object
tho Preservation Of the Literary
Wnrks Of Afro Americans Written
and Published Centuries Ago.
BY N. BARNETT DoDsoN.
Yonhers, N. Y.-Several months ago
Arthur Schomburg Of New York city
and ]. e. Bruce Of Yonkers discussed
at the latter's residence, in Yonkers.
the feasibility of establishing a society
with limited membership for the pur-
pose Of gathering information from
books and through correspondence of
historical value to the Negro race.
Their ideas agreed, and a number of
men known to be interested In work
Of this character were invited to at
tend meeting In Yonkers not long
ago, at which time the plans Of Messrs.
lined and cordially approved by those
present, and the society was organized.
The name Negro Society For Histor-
ical Research was adopted and full
complement OF. officers was elected as
follows: John e. Bruce, president; A.
A. Schomburg. secretary-treasurer;
Professor w. w. Weekes, musical d.
rector; David B. Fulton, librarian; w.
q. Braxton, art director. Membership
In the society is limited to twenty &C.
tive members, and the entrance fee is
$40, with a monthly tax of Is cents.
, The society purposes to gather
through its correspondents in the Unit
ed States and foreign countries books,
and valuable manuscripts
written by Negroes and when opportu-
nifty presents to reprint such books or
now out Of print and coming
into possession which have any his
torical value or which will be useful
for reference. These it will endeavor
to dispose Of to members Of the race
who are interested in knowing what
Negroes who wrote books fifty or a
hundred years ago had to say and how
they said it.
. The society is also making collec-
ton of pictures, old wood cuts, photo
graphs Of Negroes here and abroad.
But this feature Of its work will be at
tended with some difficulty, as there
are few pictures Of noted Negroes Of
the early period In this country. It
recently came into possession Of a
splendid steel engraving Of Nat Tur-
ner. the Virginian Negro who headed
and led an insurrection in that state
In 1888. which it contemplates repro
iucing and disposing' Of for the pur-
pose of adding to its book fund. The
books thus far gathered by Messrs.
and Bruce embrace over
l50 titles. A few Of the more impor-
tant ones are here given:
Poems Of Phyllis wheatley." 1773 first
.dition: Poems Of Phillis Wheatley," re-
visited edition: Letters Of Phillis Wheat
ey.' Of which only 100 copies were pub
ished; "Anglo-African Magazine" vol. !,
1859; '"The Greatness Of Christ" Africa
Ind America" Alex. Crummell; West
Africa Before Europe" e. A. Blyden, LII
D.; History Of Black Phalanx," Colonel
]. T. Wilson; "Clothilde," novel. William
Wells Brown: Behind the Scenes" Mrs
0. Kekley: Light and Truth" R. L. Lew
8. Boston, 1S40.
"The Color Of Solomon" Bishop B. T
Biography" Major M. r. De-
any: Poems Of Islay Walden" blind
,oet of North Carolina. lS76; Poems Of
Frances Ellen Watkins" Harper; DR..
lence." Hon. J. c. Smith: Money and
Profit Sharing" Hon. J. c. Smith: THE
Nations From New Point Of View" Rev.
Harvey Johnson: "The Rock Of Wisdom"
N. c. w. Cannon, 1870; Race
Adjustment" Kelly Miller. Esq; BIO
graphical Sketches Of Persons Of Color"
Hiss A. Mott; Around the World With
Jncle SAM" ]. H. Paynter; Shadows and
light" NJ. w. Gibbs: Anthology Of Me-
,ro Poets" Messrs. Schomburg and Bruce.
'Shammah. Glimpses Of the Ages"
,ols., DR.. T. e. 8. Scholes, London. Eng:
]. ]. Thomas reply to J.
/. Froude; NEGRO Patriots Revolution"
". c. Nell: Historical Notes Of the Em-
,loyment Of Negroes In New York." 1863.
aeorge II. Moore: "The Exiles of Florida"
!. r. Giddings: THE Freedman" book. l.
4. Child: Hanover" story of the WI
nington riots. d. B. Fulton: Narrative
4 Sojourner Truth" "Essays," Rafael
Terra: Poems" FREDERICK Marin.
Life Of Pierre Toussaint." first and sec
nd editions Of autobiography, Frederick
Douglass: Charles Sumner" A. Grimke;
The Lone Star Of Liberia" r. A. Dur
am: IAN Historical Research" George
ivermore: Negro Masonry" Upton;
Echoes From Harper's Ferry" Redputh:
Genesis In the Grebo Tongue" Rev. ].
'ayne. formerly the property Of Rosetta
douglass Sprague: Life Of julius Mel
1859; THE Cushite." Rufus L.
'erry: "The Octoroon." A, A Whitman.
'oems: "Origin and Objects Of Ancient
DR.. Martin R De Laney;
Etoile Africaine," Benito Sylvan, aid
e-camp King Menelik
'"The Black Venus" 'Timbuctoo the
Felix Du Bois: The Souls
{ Black Fo's." w. e. B. Du Bois; His
ory Of Negro Race" George w. VIII
ANS: NEGRO Soldiers In th( Rebellion"
ieorge w. Williams: "Placido." poems;
Negro In Revolution" Celebrated
'rimes." Alexander Dumas: Inter Tenn
orary Values" THE Gold Trust" "Abun-
ance and Hard Times"
ALL ARE GOOD.
A glass is good. and lass Is
good,