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For nearly 400 years of U.S. history, African Americans have excelled despite enormous obstacles, many of which began and ended with the color of their skin. American Airlines produced Blacks in Aviation as a tribute to aviation professionals everywhere. It tells the stories of only a handful of pioneers but it honors all who have dared to be among the few African Americans to have conquered careers in aviation...... Read more |
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Lincoln Motion Picture Company The Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first movie company organized by Black filmmakers, and developed a solid reputation for producing films that, according to one Black observer, “ . . . proved a revelation to those who have never seen our folks in anything but 'comedies' . . .”..... Read more |
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Chester Arthur Franklin (1880-1955) founded The Call newspaper in May 1919. It was owned and operated by him until his death on May 7, 1955. Born on June 7, 1880, Chester Franklin was the only child of George F. Franklin, a barber, and Clara Belle Williams Franklin, a teacher. He was born at the time when African Americans were moving out of Texas in search of better educational opportunities for their children...... Read more |
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The History of the Kansas City Call Someone has said, "An organization is but the lengthened shadow of one man." Behind any successful institution usually lies the guiding genius of an individual who had a dream and a plan. The Call is no exception. Chester A. Franklin founded The Call newspaper in April 1919 and remained its active head and guiding spirit for 36 years...... Read more |
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John Harold Johnson rose above abject poverty and racial discrimination to build a publishing empire that helped forever change the perception of African Americans in the United States. Johnson Publishing Company became the largest African-American-owned and -operated publishing company in the world and launched Ebony and Jet, two very successful magazines that gave a voice to millions of black Americans...... Read more |
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John H. Johnson built a media empire based on the immensely successful magazines Ebony and Jet in the years following World War II. Both were aimed at an African-American readership, and Ebony in particular became enormously influential in that community. Its founder would be remembered as "a pioneer in black journalism when a large part of America lived in the shadow of segregation and open racism," noted Rupert Cornwell of London's Independent newspaper...... Read more |
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John Harold Johnson (19 January 1918 – 8 August 2005) was an American businessman and publisher. He was the founder of the Johnson Publishing Company, and in 1982, the first African-American to appear on the Forbes 400...... Read more |
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Madam C.J. Walker (December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919) was an African-American businesswoman, hair care entrepreneur and philanthropist. Her fortune was made by developing and marketing a hugely successful line of beauty and hair products for black women, under the company she founded Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company...... Read more |
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Born Sarah Breedlove on December 23, 1867 on a Delta, Louisiana plantation, this daughter of former slaves transformed herself from an uneducated farm laborer and laundress into of the twentieth century's most successful, self-made women entrepreneur...... Read more |
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African American businessman, songwriter, and entrepreneur..... Read more |
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"Berry Gordy founded and presided over the musical empire known as Motown. As a young black man working in often inhospitable times, Gordy endeavored to reach across the racial divide with music that could touch all people, regardless of the color of their skin. Under his tutelage, Motown became a model of black capitalism, pride and self-expression and a repository for some of the greatest talent ever assembled at one company...... Read more |
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Arthur George Gaston (born July 4, 1892 – died January 19, 1996) was an African-American businessman who established a number of businesses in Birmingham and who played a significant role in the struggle to integrate Birmingham in 1963...... Read more |
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