That Mr. Taylor is not simply a boaster is proven by his record. In 1904 he went to Boley and built a cotton gin. The first year, he handled 186 bales; the second year, 440 bales; the third year, 840 bales; the fourth 935; the fifth, 1,020; the sixth, 1,2
By any century's standards, Abby Fisher was an amazing woman. An ex-slave and plantation cook, she bore and raised 11 children. She managed to get herself and her family to San Francisco, where she was a caterer and ran a pickle business. Despite bei
During the tumultuous years of the Civil War, Christiana Carteaux Bannister flourished as a woman who came from both Indian and black backgrounds, and who founded and ran a successful business.
Maggie Lena Walker, the first woman in the United States to become a president of a local bank, was born July 15, 1867 in Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A. She was a daughter of former slaves, Elizabeth Draper Mitchell and William Mitchell, who worked in the man
"I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations....I
Robert Reed Church, Sr., was a business leader, a philanthropist, and a millionaire. Born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, on June 18, 1839, he was the son of a white steamboat captain, Charles B. Church, and a slave seamstress, Emmeline, who died when Robe
Long before the doors of opportunity were open to women in business and decades before slavery was abolished, Elleanor Eldridge, a free black woman, was blazing a trail of entrepreneurship.
