CONTENTS. Progress and Achievements of the Colored People of the NINTH STREET BRANCH Y. M. C. A., CINCINNATI, O. 17 THE COMING MEN OF THE RACE Our Young Men Will Be Our Future Leaders Our Young Men Will Be Our Future Leaders Who are to be our leaders this coming generation? We have had brilliant and faithful leaders in the past, men who labored under adverse circumstances, but who succeeded in reducing opposition, and brought the race up to a higher standard. They were the pioneers in a great national movement. Their names are honored and will be honored as long as the race exists. Their preliminary great work done, they passed away leaving its continuation in the hands of other noble men and women, who are still among us. Remember, we are now in the second generation of uplift, and the mantle of the leaders of the first generation of freedom, passed to those of the second generation, has been spread over a vastly wider field, and shows room for still wider extension. The history of man shows that in all great human movements for betterment, there have been pioneers who commenced the work, and carried it to a higher point. Then came a succeeding line of leaders who took up the work and carried it higher still. Neither the pioneers of the Colored people of the United States, nor their successors, the present leaders, could do all or can do all that is to be done in the way of elevation or betterment, because it has grown to enormous proportions. For this reason we must look about us and see who are to be the future leaders of the Colored Americans. 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
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