. The united negro: his problems and his progress, containing the addresses and proceedings the Negro young people's Christian and educational congress, held August 6-11, 1902;. PIANISTS. 1 Mrs. J. W. E. Bowen. 1 2 Mrs. Anna Gardner Goodwin. 3 Mrs. W. L. McKinney. 4 Miss Isidore 1 Miss B Maie Boyd, Soloist, Jacksonville, 111. 2 Miss Cornelia Bowen, Founder and Principal of Mt. Meigs Institute, Mt. Meigs,Ala. 3 Rev.!*Wragg, B. D , Field Agent American Bible Society, Atlanta, Ga. 1 MATERIAL PROGRESS OF THE RACE 319 left the country because they could not make the ground yieldenough
. The united negro: his problems and his progress, containing the addresses and proceedings the Negro young people's Christian and educational congress, held August 6-11, 1902;. PIANISTS. 1 Mrs. J. W. E. Bowen. 1 2 Mrs. Anna Gardner Goodwin. 3 Mrs. W. L. McKinney. 4 Miss Isidore 1 Miss B Maie Boyd, Soloist, Jacksonville, 111. 2 Miss Cornelia Bowen, Founder and Principal of Mt. Meigs Institute, Mt. Meigs,Ala. 3 Rev.!*Wragg, B. D , Field Agent American Bible Society, Atlanta, Ga. 1 MATERIAL PROGRESS OF THE RACE 319 left the country because they could not make the ground yieldenough to give them a living. The difficulty was, they had notstudied the latest methods of agriculture. We are learning howto make poor soil rich, so that it may reward us for our labor. We have made more material progress possibly in mercantileenterprise than in any other direction. We have found it easierto buy and sell than to do many other things. Not a few of ourpeople went into business, and because they did not understandbusiness principles, they failed. But, like others, we have profitedby failure. We have been taught by experience that there are manyups and downs to success. Our mercantile enterprise has beenupon a small scale, with a few exceptions noted here and
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