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: