Today, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History
posted a picture of the National Negro Business League in 1900
to their Facebook page. Booker T. Washington, seated 2nd from
left, was the 1st president. Lo and behold, who is that to the
left of him? Why, it’s James Carroll Napier. Napier served as
President of the League from 1915-1919. All posts in category
Napier Posted by Taneya on August 23, 2012 Tom Wood, writer of
Nashville history over at NashvillePost.com sent me the
following article from the September 29, 1878 issue of the
Colored Councilman. J.C. Napier, the councilman elect from the
fourth ward, is considered by the colored people to be one of
the most creditable representatives of their race, and this
great popularity was exhibited yesterday, in his defeat of Mr.
Chas. H. Saunders, one of the most popular young men in the
city. Councilman Napier is about twenty-four years of age, a
bright mulatto, and is a graduate of the law department of
Howard University, Washington D.C. He left