Occupation-Business Owner
John “the Baptist” Stradford (1861-1935)
John B (for the Baptist) Stradford was born a free man in Versailles, Kentucky in 1861. His father, J.C. Stradford...
Anderson Bonner (ca. 1839-1920)
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Prominent Texas landowner and businessman Anderson Bonner was born enslaved in Alabama around 1839. Not much is known about his...
Richard Howell Gleaves (1819-1907)
Richard Howell Gleaves was a Haitian-American merchant, lawyer, politician, and the 55th Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina. Greaves was born...
William Robert Harvey (1941- )
William Robert Harvey is an educator, businessman, academic administrator, and the longest-serving tenured HBCU president in history, as the 12th...
Francis Eugene “Hill” Harper (1966- )
“Hill” Harper is an actor, author, and lawyer, best known for his roles on television shows CSI:NY and The Good...
Eliza Seymour Lee (1800-c. 1874)
Eliza Lee was one of the most esteemed cooks in antebellum Charleston who ran not only a prestigious catering business...
Sally Seymour (?-1824)
Sally Seymour of Charleston, South Carolina built a business empire out of her pastry shop by providing haute cuisine for...
Alonzo Alexander Swann, Jr. (1925-2007)
Though overshadowed by and having received far less publicity than fabled Pearl Harbor hero Dorie Miller, Alonzo Alexander Swann Jr....
John Baldwin West (1905-1960)
Dr. John Baldwin West was one of a handful of African American pulp detective fiction writers. In the 1950s his...
