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Men of the Month
THE LATE R. L. BROWN
A SEER OF BEAUTY
RICHARD LONSDALE BROWN died of pneumonia in Muskogee, Okla., last month.  The loss to the Negro race and to the world of art is very great.  He was scarcely twenty-four years of age.  He came to New York with his portfolio under his arm in 1911, and asked George de Forest Brush, the famous artist, "Do you think I can ever become an artist?"  Brush looked at his work.  "You are an artist," he said.  
Mr. Brush and The National Association of Advancement of Colored People undertook to help the boy.  Eventually he had an exhibition on Fifth Avenue in the Ovington galleries which netted him a sufficient sum to begin his studies.  He studied in Boston and in New York, helped with the pageant, "The Star of Ethiopia," in New York, Washington, and Philadelphia, and then started on a trip to see what beauty he might find in the South.  Alone and unattended, he found death in Oklahoma.  
Some of us, perhaps all of us are to blame that Richard Brown was not given a better chance to develop a gift which some of the greatest artists called wonderful.
A Student
LUCIUS LEE JORDAN, Professor of History and Economics at Straight University, New Orleans, died October 27.

THE LATE L. L. JORDAN
He was a graduate of Atlanta University and of Harvard University, where he took his degree cum laude.  He was a careful student and a man of great force of character and unwavering probity.
A CHILD OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
THE escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery is one of the classics of the Abolition agitation.  Their daughter, Ellen Craft Crum, widow of the late Dr. W. D. Crum of Charleston, S. C., formerly United States Minister to Liberia, has recently died at Charleston.  
Mrs. Crum was born in England, educated in Massachusetts, and lived her influential and cheerful life in South Carolina.  She was stricken with the same African fever that killed her husband , and after years has succumbed to it.  
A LEADER OF WOMEN
Mrs. FLORENCE RANDOLPH, who has been made president of the New Jersey State federation of Colored Women's Clubs, is a minister of the A. M. E. Zion Church and president of the Home and Foreign Mission Society of that church.  She was born in Charleston, S. C., and educated at Avery Institute.  She came to New York to live, and was ordained as a deacon by Bishop Walters in 1901.  She attended
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