# Dr. Crummell — A Voice from the South character guide

> Dr. Crummell in A Voice from the South by Anna Julia Cooper.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Alexander, Dr. Alex. Crummell

**First appearance:** 0010-has-america-a-race-problem-if-so-how-can-it-best-be-solved

## Snapshot

The venerable Black clergyman and intellectual whose vision of race progress the narrator invokes, honors, and quietly extends toward the woman question.

## Who they are

As an elder statesman of African American thought, he embodies the intellectual tradition the narrator inherits and builds upon. The tension is generational and gendered: his case for the race is powerful, yet the Black Woman's voice remains the note he and others have left unspoken. His presence early on anchors her argument in a lineage she both reveres and presses forward.

## In the story

### [Womanhood a Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_voice_from_the_south_se/chapters/womanhood-a-vital-element-in-the-regeneration-and-progress-of-a-race)

Referenced as a predecessor who spoke on 'The Black Woman of the South,' setting the stage for the narrator's plea for Colored Girls.

### [Has America a Race Problem; If So, How Can It Best Be Solved?](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_voice_from_the_south_se/chapters/has-america-a-race-problem-if-so-how-can-it-best-be-solved)

Quoted for the belief that the Almighty preserves and builds up a lowly people for noble ends.

### [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_voice_from_the_south_se/chapters/endnotes)

Referenced as the author of a pamphlet.

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