Beam, Lura - Douglass, Harlan Paul., 1906-1918.

Douglass was a Congregational Clergyman, superintendent of education for the American Missionary Associtation, in charge of seventy-five schools for blacks and mountaineers in the south (1906-10), and corresponding secretary of the Association (1910-18), he later went on to other pursuits. Lura Ella Beam was a teacher at Gregory Institute in Wilmington, North Carolina (1908-10) and LeMoyne Institute in Memphis, Tennessee (1910-11), and assistant superintendent of education for the American Missionary Association (1911-19). She wrote a book about her experiences as an American Missionary Association employee in He Called Them by the Lighting (1967).

Three items of interest among the writings are notes by Douglass titled "Study of Colored Men Who Study Making Turpentine" "Indian Life", and "Congregational Missionary Work in Puerto Rico". Book reviews about Douglass's Christian Reconstruction and one he wrote about Augustus Field Beard's Crusade of Brotherhood are also of interest.

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