Business
C.R. Patterson & Sons Company (1893-1939)
The C.R. Patterson & Sons Company was a carriage building firm, and the first African American-owned automobile manufacturer. The company...
A. G. Gaston (1892-1996)
Arthur George Gaston, wealthy businessman and civil rights activist, was born on July 4, 1892 in Demopolis, Alabama to Tom...
Robert Bogle (1774-1848)
Entrepreneur Robert Bogle was the first of many African American caterers who served nineteenth-century Philadelphia’s white elite. Born in 1774,...
Christopher Paul Gardner (1954- )
Christopher Paul Gardner—entrepreneur, inspirational speaker, and writer—was born on February 9, 1954 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Gardner, never knowing his father,...
Christopher J. Perry (1854-1920)
Christopher J. Perry, a pioneering black businessman who championed racial equality, established the Philadelphia Tribune in 1884. The Tribune is...
Harry Pace (1884-1943)
Harry Herbert Pace was the founder of the first black record company, Pace Phonograph Corporation which sold recordings under the...
Horace King (1807-1885)
Horace King, born a slave on September 8, 1807, in Chesterfield District, South Carolina, was a successful bridge architect and...
Robert Curry Owens (1860-?)
Robert Curry Owens was born in Los Angeles, California in January of 1860 to Charles Owens, a livery stable owner,...
Carl H. McCall (1935- )
Carl McCall, former comptroller for the State of New York, was the first African American nominated by the Democratic Party...
