Black Business in the Gilded Age: Afro-American Realty Company
byPhillip A. Payton, Jr. (1867-1917) and his Afro-American Realty Company took advantage of the real estate “color line” in New York and helped to…
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Black Business in the Gilded Age: C.R. Patterson Automobile Company
byBy the turn of the century, America was home to over 1,000 automobile manufacturers, including Ford, Cadillac, and General Motors. What automobile history does…
Black Business in the Gilded Age: Coleman Manufacturing Company
byThe Gilded Age not only witnessed an unprecedented boom in technological advances and the businesses created by a rapidly globalizing economy, but the amazing…