Black Titan : A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire

A compelling biography of one of America's first African-American entrepreneurs and millionaires details the life and times of this grandson of slaves, born into poverty in the late-nineteenth-century South, who built a business empire based on insurance, real estate, and communications and played a key financial role in the civil rights movement. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.