Word: boykins
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Dates: during 1887-1887
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...Arthur Boykin, a graduate, then spoke on "Africa in America." He emphasized what a former speaker had said of the sore need of competent teachers in the South, of the eagerness with which the negroes seize all opportunities offered them. The speaker gave a short sketch of his life, better to show the need of his people. Mr. Boykin was followed by Marguerite La Fleshe, who spoke of the difference of the condition of her people, the Omahas, to-day, and fifteen years ago when she lived among them. Then they lived as tribes; but in the interval they have...