There are 4,314 colored lady musicians in the land of the "Father of his country."
There are 111 colored women who are regular practicing physicians in the United States.
In 1870 there was not a colored lady bookkeeper in this country. To-day there are 347.
There are 18 Afro-American women who are competent land surveyors.
Statistics show that there are no less than seventy stenographers among the colored women, most of whom are employed on good salaries.
The census of 1890 shows that there are 3,949 actresses in this country, more than a score of whom are women of the race.
Besides the above-named avocations, we have sculptors, painters, lawyers, architects, merchants, and, in fact, our women are filling with success and ability almost every avocation and profession of to-day, and the day is in the near future when the service of thousands of others will be in still greater demand.