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(RELIGION.) [PENN, I. GAR-
LAND; EDITOR.]
Souvenir Official
Program of The Negro Young
People’s Christian and Educational
Congress.
Copiously illustrated from
photographs, with a 50-page section of
printed music for traditional gospel songs;
some overall wear.
A
tlanta, 1902
[300/400]
THE FIRST OF TWO SUCH
“
SOUVENIRS
”
FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ATTENDED
THIS PREPARATORY CONGRESS OF REPRE
-
SENTATIVES FROM DIFFERENT SCHOOLS
OFFERING OPPORTUNITIES TO YOUNG
A
FRICAN
A
MERICAN MEN AND WOMEN
.
Another was issued in 1906. The Christian
and Educational Congress was essentially a
gathering of representatives from the Negro col-
leges of the country. There are articles on
education but also on racial progress. Garland
Penn, the compiler and editor, was the author of
the mammoth and still relevant reference, The
Afro-American Press and its Editors (1891).
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