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Title: Afro-American encyclopaedia, or, The thoughts, doings, and sayings of the race (electronic resource): 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
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Haley, James T Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915. Mind and matter Settle, William B., former owner. GEU Woodson, Carter Godwin, 1875-1950, former owner. GEU Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, former owner. GEU
Subjects: African Americans African Americans African Americans
Publisher: Nashville, Tenn. : Haley & Florida
Contributing Library: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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- has made a good beginning in securing the neces-sary apparatus for instruction in the various branches of naturalscience. Laboratory work in elementary chemistry and mineralogyis now systemi/ed and established. The museum contains a well-arranged collection of over three thousand specimens in naturalhistory, geology, mineralogy and ethnology. Library and Reading Room. The library now contains 5,227 bound volumes and a large numberof pamphlets. The reading room is an adjunct of the library andthis year has been provided with twenty-five of the best periodicalsand thirty-five newspapers.
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32(3 afro-american encyclopaedia. Aims. Fisk University aims to be a great center of the best Christianeducational forces for the training of colored youth. During thethirty years since its founding, the faculty and trustees have heldunfalteringly to this purpose and all plans have been laid for provid-ing the best possible advatages for the wHigher Education. TheUniversity in all its methods seeks to develop character and to giveits students a thorough preparation for the practical duties of life. The Alumni. The Alumni are making a record of useful services to which Fiskpoints with pride as ample vindication of the wisdom of founding aUniversity for the Negroes of the South in the very dawn of theirfreedom. Christian education accomplishes the same beneficentresults in the case of the Negro that it does in the case of otherraces. College and university education are a vital necessity to thestudy and permanent advance of any race or class of humanity Rev. E. M. Cravath, D.D., Preside

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