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[[image - black & white photograph of people working and shopping in a store]] There were about 30,000 Negro-owned stores in this country in 1939. The number has grown since. Sales for the same year totaled $71,000,000. There are eleven banks owned and operated by Negroes. There are forty-one member companies of the powerful National Negro Insurance Association; they have 2,800,000 policies and $422,000,000 worth of insurance in force. [[image - black & white photograph of two Negro women in a hat shop]]