EXAMPLES OF SUCCESS
Rev. S. G. Atkins, President of the State Normal and Industrial College of North Carolina.
Dr. E. F. Boyd, physician and surgeon, Nashville, Tenn.
Hon. H. P. Cheatham, Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia.
Dr. D. W. Culp, A. M., M. D., author of “Twentieth Century Negro Literature.”
W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, editor “The Crisis, A Record of the Darker Races.”
Bishop G. W. Clinton, A. M. E. Zion Church, Charlotte, N. C.
Prof. J. M. Cox, President Philander Smith College, Little Rock.
E. E. Cooper, Editor “Colored American.”
Prof. A. U. Frierson, Professor of Greek, Biddle University.
Prof. N. W. Harllee, Principal High School, Dallas, Texas.
Dr. Lawrence Aldridge Lewis is a rising physician of Indiana, who made the highest record in a competitive examination for the city hospital of Indianapolis against 107 applicants.
Prof. R. S. Lovinggood, President Samuel Houston College, Austin, Texas.
Kelly Miller, Professor Mathematics Howard University.
D. W. Onley, D. D., Dentist, Washington, D. C.
I. L. Purcell, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Pensacola, Fla.
G. T. Robinson, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Nashville, Tenn.
Bishop H. M. Turner, D. D., LL. D., A. M. E. Church, Atlanta, Ga.
Rev. O. M. Waller, Rector Episcopal Church, Washington, D. C.
Prof. H. L. Walker, Principal High School, Augusta, Ga.
Prof. Booker T. Washington, President Tuskegee Institute.
Prof. N. B. Young, President Florida State Normal and Industrial College.
The foregoing are a few leaders in the professions. There are numerous others whose names and deeds have already made history and fame.
The present field of leaders in the professions is large, but there are other fields of leadership in the business world. These men are successful and point the way to others to follow, and they must lay down their leadership with the others:
Charles Banks, Cashier Bank of Mound Bayou, Mound Bayou, Miss.
E. C. Berry, hotel man, Athens, Ohio. Said to keep one of the best hotels in the United States.
Rev. R. H. Boyd, President National Doll Company; also of the National Baptist Publishing House, Nashville, Tenn.
William Washington Brown, Founder of the True Reformers’ Bank, Richmond, Va.
Junius G. Groves, “The Potato King.” Edwardsville, Ky.
Deal Jackson, Albany, Georgia, the great cotton king.
John Merrick, founder of the North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association, the strongest Negro insurance company in the world; North Carolina.
W. E. Pettiford, founder of the Alabama Penny Savings Bank, Birmingham, Alabama.
The following condition of the Colored American opportunities will be of assistance in suggesting fields of leadership:
The number of colored men now engaged in business and professions are as follows:
| Agricultural pursuits | 2,143,176 |
| Professional occupations | 47,324 |
| Domestic and personal service | 1,324,160 |
| Trade and transportation | 209,154 |
| Manufacturing and mechanical pursuits | 275,149 |
This is close to 25 percent of the entire colored population of the United States.
But this enormous field of opportunity, is not the limit. You have aspirations toward music and the fine arts—singers, painters, sculptors, actors and poets. Here are a few leaders to be followed by you or your children, relatives or friends: