Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1925-02-28
RICHMOND
MUST COME BACK

For forty years or more Colored
I Richmond held the blue ribbon. and
was referred to by people almost ey.
[ erywhere as being in the lead OF ali
other places IN business affairs, pro
duction and operation of great In
stitutions, and in accomplishments
! by Race people.
Colored Richmond has it's Virginia
h. Union University, Hartshorn College,
h gh and grammar schools and IS an
! int ligent atmosphere, with three
Race newspapers and many large en-
terprises, including three Race banks
; also hundreds of business and pro-
! fess.onal men and women. However
Colored Richmond, perhaps from too
I much praise, was lured into a com
placency which resulted in a loss of
it's ranking position.
f! Chicago has the greatest Race
newspaper, The Chicago Defender;
it's Douglass National Bank a million
! dollar institution, issuing National
Bank Currency bearing an engraving
of Frederick Douglass and carrying
the signatures Of Negro president
and cashier; its Liberty Life Insur-
, ance Company, The Binga State
: Bank; The Golden Brown Chemical
Works; many large stores OF all
kinds; Real Estate Brokers and
Agents; Fine Hotels, Restaurants.
Hospitals and other prosperous en-
. terprises.
St. Louis has, in addition to the
mill on dollar chemical works and
toilet crt o'es manufacturing plant Of
Poro College, an unusually fine line Of
reta stores. including haberdashery
clothing, jewelry, shoes and first
class hotel, Y. NJ c. A. and a hos
pital.
: Indianapolis, Ind. has the million
dollar manufacturing plant of the
Madam C. ]. Walker Mfg. Co. and
many other fine race enterprises.
New York City has produced sew
eral million dollar real estate con
Germs; is the home of the Walkers,
who have thsir splendid mansion on
the Hudson the exclusive millionaire
siild SOULFUL, .NhINli lSPCASS wi w
have cost around one-half million
dollars.
f. Harlem is the colored settlement
OF New York City; it has hundreds
CT first class business places owned
and operated by Race people; has
one colosed church that owns sew
eral million dollars worth of real
estate; it has several Race newspa-
pers and magazines; police station
tn nearly all of the officers and
policemen of Race people; it has the
best of educational institutions, and
to some extent under colored man
agemisnt; it has splendid Y M. G.
A. and Y. w. G. A. and one city
hospital under colored management.
In New York City, Chicago and
s.. Louis. Race people own and &C.
!cupy more first class apartments and
homes On first class streets than in
any other cities in the world.
1t might be worth while to mention
the progress being made by Race
people in the city of Pittsburgh, Pa.
. the home of The Pittsburgh Courier
ord Of the million dollar Race bank,
The Steel CITY Banking Company Of
Pittsburgh; also that of the city Of
Washington, D. c., with the great
, Howard University and the highest
grade off public schools for Race
neop'e in the whole country; with a
Life Insurance Company, two Banks
md hundreds of other Race enter
pr'ses.
Perhaps our readers will say that
all of the above cities have larger
population than Richmond and the
reference or comparison is unfair.
For this reason reference will be
made to Norfolk, Va, whose colored
population is not much more than
one half that of Richmond, which is
the home of The Journal and Guide.
It has the largest and perhaps the
best high school for Race people in
the State. and q Race man is the
principal: the city furnishes clinic
for co,ored people which is operated
by Race physicians and nurses; the
cd'ored people own and operate a
modern hospital in Norfolk; they
own more property and pay more
real estate taxes into the State
Treasury than Race people in Rich
mond: they have hundreds of bust
ness enterprises, including the only
million dollar Race bank in Virginia,
The Metropolitan Bank and Trust
Company.
Durham N. G. has a small pop
ulation when compared with Rich
mond. Perhaps. the total population
OF all races at Durham VIII not far