We now have able leaders, men of great character and ability, men whose loss would be keenly felt, but they know, and we know, that in the course of nature all must pass away, and we have it from their earnest utterances that their great hope is to have successors in the leadership. Many of them are ready to train others to walk in their footsteps. There are thousands of men, children in our schools, youth beginning college life, and young men who have completed their course and are ready to take up a position as commanders in the battle of life.
Here are a few of our present leaders, between whom no invidious comparisons can be made, and to whose number may be added a thousand or more working in more or less conspicuous positions to fit their people to become leaders. They are shining examples of success and merely mentioned to show your own opportunities.
Look at and study this list earnestly, it concerns you:
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.