By Frances Rice
The independent production company, Block Starz Music
Television LLC (BSMTV), has produced a series of documentaries that feature African-American
entrepreneurs who overcame incredible obstacles and achieved success against
the odds in the late 19th century and early 21st century.
Below are some of the
black entrepreneurs featured in the documentaries. The complete series can be
found at this link: http://aasuccess.com/
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HISTORY OF SUCCESSFUL BLACK AMERICANS
Frederick
D. Patterson (1871-1932)
was a successful African-American entrepreneur who manufactured the
Greenfield-Patterson automobile. Patterson is the first black man known to have
made cars during this period.
Junius
Groves was a self-educated farmer, landowner,
and entrepreneur who became one of the most prosperous African-American men of
the early twentieth century.
Robert
S. Abbott was the founder of The Chicago
Defender, which became known as "America's Black Newspaper". Abbott
was one of the first African-American self-made millionaires,
Jeremiah
G. Hamilton, a black Wall Street
financier and entrepreneur, was New York’s first African-American millionaire
ten years before the Civil War.
Reginald
F. Lewis was the first African-American to
build successfully a billion dollar company, Beatrice Foods. Lewis was
America's richest black man in the 1980s, but he was not a billionaire.
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Frances Rice, a retired lawyer and Army
Lieutenant Colonel, is chairman of the National Black Republican Association
and may be contacted at: www.NBRA.Info
