Afro-American encyclopaedia, or, the thoughts, doings, and sayings of the race
Subtitle: embracing addresses, lectures, biographical sketches, sermons, poems, names of universities, colleges, seminaries, newspapers, books, and a history of the denominations, giving the numerical strength of each. In fact, it teaches every subject of interest to the colored people, as discussed by more than one hundred of their wisest and best men and women ; illustrated with beautiful half-tone engravings
By: compiled and arranged by James T. Haley
Contributors: Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans; Encyclopedias; Biography
Other titles: Afro-American encyclopaedia; Thoughts, doings, and sayings of the race; Afro-American encyclopedia; Mind and matter.; Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: Collection of historical and contemporary information pertaining to African Americans at the end of the 19th century. Short informational sketches of notable African Americans and African American institutions with essays and lectures by African Americans on a variety of subjects, also includes a collection of African American poetry as well as statistical tables such as the county by county population of African Americans in the United States. Seeks to inform its audience on such topics as history, religion, morality, education, and civil rights.
Notes: Title from electronic title page.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The Church in the Southern Black community.

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Transcribed from: Afro-American encyclopaedia, or, the thoughts, doings, and sayings of the race : embracing addresses, lectures, biographical sketches, sermons, poems, names of universities, colleges, seminaries, newspapers, books, and a history of the denominations, giving the numerical strength of each. In fact, it teaches every subject of interest to the colored people, as dicussed by more than one hundred of their wisest and best men and women ; illustrated with beautiful half-tone engravings / compiled and arranged by James T. Haley. Nashville, Tenn. : Haley & Florida, 1895. xv, 640 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. "Mind and matter, an address delivered by Booker T. Washington ... before the Alabama state teachers' association, Selma, Ala., June 5, 1895" including parts of the famous "Atlanta compromise" speech: p. 87-101. Sold by subscription exclusively.

Funding from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition supported the electronic publication of this title.

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