nd at
school teaching. After a year's experience at this work, he
again returned to his first love, the printer's trade, but
this time he went to New York City. Of course the other
compositors objected to working with a "Nigger," but by the
manly stand of the publisher, Mr. John Dougall, the "Nigger"
remained, and after a short strike the white compositors
were glad to return.

Mr. Fortune's real career as a journalist began in 1880,
when, with two friends, he began the publication of the
_Rumor_, which, after two years, was changed to the _New
York Globe_. After four years the paper was forced to
suspend. Mr. Fortune immediately began the publication of
the _New York Freeman_. A year later, 1885, the name of the
paper was changed to the _New York Age_, of which Mr.
Fortune is still editor.

His writings are, however, not confined to the editing of
his paper. He is the author of several books, but "Black and
White" and "The Negro in Politics" are perhaps the most
noted.

Mr. Fortune was the first to suggest the Afro-American
League, an organization in the interest of the Negro race.
He was the president of the first convention of this league,
which met in Chicago in 1890. His address as president of
the convention was a scathing arraignment of the South.

Mr. Fortune was also elected chairman of the executive
committee of the National Afro-American Press Association
which met in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1890.

The National Negro Business League was the outcome of a
conversation between Booker T. Washington and Mr. Fortune.
Mr. Fortune was elected chairman of the executive committee
of the National Negro Business League which met in Boston in
1900, and also at its meeting in Chicago in 1901.

Mr. Fortune is, as might be suspected, a Republican in
politics. In the presidential election of 1900 he took an
active part in the political canvas of that year. He spoke
in Indiana and in Missouri, advocating the re-election of
President McKinley.

The whole energy of his life is devoted to the interests of
the Negro race in America. He wields a sharp rapier. He is
the complement of Booker T. Washington. Each is doing his
own work in his own way; the one supplements the other's
work.

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