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apolis. Ind., 190-10; )Jew York, 1905; . tIanta, Ga., 1906; Topeka,
Kan .. 1907; Baltimore. Md., 1908; Louisville, Ky., 1909.
One of the ohjec:ls of the National League i to encourage the
orIYani7:ation of Joeal busine. s league throughout the country,
and to .timulale the business life of the race. At the convention
in Louis\'ille, K.\'.. Augu:t 18. 1909, Dr. '" ashington, in his
annual address. direded altention to the succes of tIle league,
and added, "Thi organizalion ha succeeded and will succeed
becau' il has a con truelive program and not a de tructive one.
.-\. construetive program is the only on that will hold men togelher
and make them work for a common cau e. 'When we had
our first meeting, Ihere wa comparatively little interest among
our people in business. commercial. and indu trial enterpri e .
This orrranizalion has grown durinrr these year to the point
where hundred' of our be t men and women come together,
repre enting all parts of our country, for the e annual meeting.
"e have at least 500 local K egro Busines League cattered
throughout the country. "hen we began work there were few
drug store under the control of black people; now we have
nearly 200. A few year ago there were only about half a dozen
Negro banks in the country; now there are 47. Dry-goods
stores, grocery stores and indu trial enterpri es to the number of
nearly 10.000 have sprung up in all part of the country."
The membership of the league, both men and women, repre
ent every eetion of the country, and every department and
phase of bu. iness life. Outo-ro\\1hs of the national meetings
have been the organization of the National TerrI'O Banker'
.~ 'ociation, the. ational egro Pre oeiation. the ational
1 egro Funeral Director' A ociation, and other. :lVlany tate
bu.-ine . associations have been formed and ar doinrr excellent
work. The membership of the National League i of two
('lasses: life members, who pa.\· • 25, and annual member, who
pay $2.
Dr. WashinlTton has been unanimously reeleeted the pre id('
nt of the league since his fir t election at the Boston convenlion
in 11)00. There are five vice-pre.·idenL·: harles Banks,
~Iound Ba~·ou. :\Iiss.; Dr. . G. Elb rt, Willllinf,ton D I.;
Harry T. Pratt. Baltimore. ~Id.; J. T. Langford. Wa hington
D. C.. and W. II. Steward. Louisville, Ky. The corresponding
secretary is Emmell J. colt,. ecretary to Dr. Washington at
Tuskegee Institute. Gilbert C. Harris, Bo ton, has been trea urer
of the league from I he beginning. The other officers, each of
whom i.. a repre. enlatin' business man, are as follow.: . Laing
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Williams, CLlicago, compiler; F. H. Gilbert, Brooklyn, . Y,
registrar; R. C. Houston, Fort Worth, Tex., assistant registrar;
Wm. H. Davis, Washington, official stenographer; Cyrus Field
Adams, Washington, transportation agent. The executive comIl!
ittee i composed of the following persons, all of whom are
life member of the organization: J. C. Napier, chairman,
ashville. Tenn.; Dr. . E. Courtney, Boston. !fa .; J. C.
Jackson, Lexington, Ky.; W. S. Taylor. Richmond, Va.; E. P.
Booze, Colorado Springs, Colo.; J. E. Bush, Little Rock, Ark.;
J. B. Bell, Houston, Tex.; S. A. Furniss, Indianapolis, Ind.;
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M. M. Lewey, Pensacola, Fla.; T. T. Velar, Brinton, Pa.; W.
T. Andrews, Sumter, S. C.; F. D. Patterson, Greenfield, Ohio.
It is expected that the annual meeting for 1910 will be held
in Boston.
At the convention in Louisville, Dr. "a hington suggested the
observance in 1913 of the half century of the Negro's freedom,
and recommended that a committee be appointed to carry forward
the movement to hold somewhere in the country an exhibition
" to indicate by tangible and visible things the tremendous
growth that ha taken place in the material, educational,
moral, and religious life of the Negro" during the past fifty years.
The league authorized the appointment of such a committee,
and plans are already being considered for a proper celebration
of this important event.
Etntnett J. Scott
Tusk.~.e. Ala.
EXECUTIVE secretary of Tuskegee Institute, and secretary to
Dr. Booker T. Washington since 1897; one of the founders, and
corresponding secretary, of the National Negro Business League,
and recently appointed by President Taft a member of the commission
of the United State to Liberia, to investio'"-ate conditions
in that country - the only egro member.
Mr. cott is probably the be t known of the younger men of
the race, and take rank a a man of keen perception and rare
executive ability, cordial in his manner, a good public speaker,
and one who is intensely interested in the material and moral
progres of the race.
Dr. Washington, in his book, "Tuskegee and Its People,"
ays of Mr. Scott: "For many years Mr. Scott has served
the chool with rare fidelity and zeal, and has been to the
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