answers: black social leaders
context: that its organizers were from many different states and believed company’s life insurance policies would be sold throughout the nation. Dr. Julius Yemans Dewey, a physician in Montpelier, Vermont, was among the company's founders. He would later serve as general agent and then president of the company and delivered the payment of the company's very first claim on July 26, 1850. Today, National Life Group includes National Life Insurance Co., Life Insurance Company of the Southwest, in Dallas, Texas, Sentinel Investments and Equity Services, Inc. and has more than $30 billion in assets under management. The National Life Group companies </s> Lawrence. North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company NC Mutual (originally the North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association and later North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company) is an American life insurance company located in downtown Durham, North Carolina and one of the most influential African-American businesses in United States history. Founded in 1898 by local black social leaders, its business increased from less than a thousand dollars in income in 1899 to a quarter of a million dollars in 1910. The company specialized in "industrial insurance," which was basically burial insurance. The company hired salesmen whose main job was to collect </s> Carolina Mutual. W.E.B. Du Bois had a different approach, supporting agitation to demand full civil rights for blacks—yet he also celebrated Durham. Reflecting on his visit to Durham, he notes that the "social and economic development [of African American people in the city] is perhaps more striking than that of any similar group in the nation." He goes on to mention the actions of C. C. Spaulding, then general manager of N. C. Mutual, who took children from a school to town "to show them what colored People were doing in Durham." He saw Spaulding's action as an abnormal display
question: who founded the north carolina mutual and provident insurance company in 1898