Irvine Garland Penn (October 7, 1867 – July 22, 1930) was an American educator, journalist, and lay leader in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was the author of The Afro-American Press and Its Editors, published in 1891, and a coauthor with Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and Ferdinand Lee Barnett of The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World's Columbia Exposition in 1893. In the late 1890s, he became an officer in the Methodist Episcopal Church and played an important role advocating for the interests of African Americans in the church until his death. (From Wikipedia) More about I. Garland Penn:
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| | Books by I. Garland Penn: Penn, I. Garland (Irvine Garland), 1867-1930: The Afro-American Press and Its Editors (Springfield, MA: Willey and Co., 1891) Penn, I. Garland (Irvine Garland), 1867-1930: The College of Life, or, Practical Self-Educator: A Manual of Self-Improvement for the Colored Race, Forming an Educational Emancipator and a Guide to Success (c1896), also by Henry Davenport Northrop and Joseph R. Gay Penn, I. Garland (Irvine Garland), 1867-1930, contrib.: The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World's Columbian Exposition: The Afro-American's Contribution to Columbian Literature (Chicago: Ida B. Wells, 1893), by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, also contrib. by Frederick Douglass and F. I. Barnett (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
Additional books by I. Garland Penn in the extended shelves: Penn, I. Garland (Irvine Garland), 1867-1930: College of life (Bessemer, Ala. : Hollingsworth & Porter, [1898?], 1898), also by Henry Davenport Northrop and Joseph R. Gay (page images at HathiTrust) Penn, I. Garland (Irvine Garland), 1867-1930: College of life (Cincinnati, Ohio : W.H. Ferguson Co., 1896., 1896), also by Henry Davenport Northrop and Joseph R. Gay (page images at HathiTrust) Penn, I. Garland (Irvine Garland), 1867-1930: The united negro: his problems and his progress, containing the addresses and proceedings the Negro young people's Christian and educational congress, held August 6-11, 1902 (D. E. Luther publishing co., 1902), also by John W. E. Bowen (page images at HathiTrust) Penn, I. Garland (Irvine Garland), 1867-1930: The united Negro: his problems and his progress; containing the addresses and proceedings the Negro Young People's Christian and Educational Congress, held August 6-11, 1902. (Negro Universities Press, 1969), also by Negro Young People's Christian and Educational Congress (1902 : Atlanta) and J. W. E. Bowen (page images at HathiTrust) Penn, I. Garland (Irvine Garland), 1867-1930: The united Negro : his problems and his progress : containing the addresses and proceedings the Negro Young People's Christian and Educational Congress, held August 6-11, 1902 (D.E. Luther Publishing, 1902), also by Ga.) Negro Young People's Christian and Educational Congress (1902 : Atlanta and J. W. E. Bowen (page images at HathiTrust)
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