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516 The fact that we are not accorded proportional recognition may be due to the relative difference in numbers and to so much competition. This, however, is not the issue confronting us. Grant that there is a difference of opinion as to the proportional recognition, we have the consciousness of knowing that we are recognized as journalists, and as contributors to Northern magazines, dailies, and weeklies. We have no such recognition in the South.

We have made an assertion which it becomes us to support. The reader of this volume has already learned that Mr. T. T. Fortune was upon the editorial staff of The New York Sun. He has furnished articles to the various metropolitan journals. In fact, he is accorded a place among the first journalists of New York. John S. Durham, lately appointed consul-general to the Republic of San Domingo, was associate editor of The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Robert Teamoh is on the editorial staff of The Boston Globe. J. Gordon Street and Miss Lillian Lewis are on The Boston Herald. Prof. W. S. Scarborough has time and again contributed to The Forum, Harper's Magazine, etc.

The American Baptist Publication Society has made a step in advance by recognizing the Afro-American Baptists as editorial writers upon The Teacher. Rev. W. J. Simmons, D. D., Rev. Walter H. Brooks, D. D., and Rev. E. K. Love, are among those thus complimented. The Methodist Book Concern has also recognized Afro-American ability upon The Journal. Rev. A. E. P. Albert, D. D., is one thus recognized. The press clubs and associations in the North have admitted Afro-Americans to membership. The white journals from the Mason-and-Dixon line to the far North, are cognizant of the Afro-American's talent, in this direction.

In the South, some of the white journals have had Afro-American reporters. This has been the case with some of