American Negro Academy, scholarly and artistic organization founded in 1897 in Washington, D.C., that was dedicated to the education and empowerment of African Americans. The American Negro Academy was founded by Alexander Crummell, who was the son of a West African chief and was an important American literary figure. Its members included some of the most highly educated and socially prominent African Americans and other people of African descent living abroad.
At the inception of the American Negro Academy, its founding members laid out five major objectives: “the promotion of literature, science, and art; the culture of intellectual taste; the fostering of higher education; the publication of scholarly work; the defense of the Negro against vicious assaults.” The organization brought together black artists and scholars from all over the world.
The American Negro Academy was most notable for the scholarly works it produced. At the time, most mainstream universities and other scholarly institutions paid very little attention to African American or African studies, but the American Negro Academy published many works that examined the role of blacks in the United States.
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