The Need for and Education of Negro Business Men

The economic arrangement under which the Negro race in the United States makes its living is a decidedly unbalanced one. On the one hand, the Negro plays little creative part in the economy of the general community; on the other, he has made no appreciable headway in the development of a well-balanced economy in his own many more-or-less segregated race communities scattered across the country.' A look to the future would make reasonable the conclusion that unless he succeeds in gaining some active participation in the control and management of industry or commerce, or both, in the general community, or else within his own race communities is himself able actively to create at least a substantial part of the satisfactions and utilities consumed there, his material well being will be but little better taken care of a hundred years hence than today. In one or the other or both of these avenues of de

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