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Runyon Heights became one of the first predominantly black suburban areas, with few through streets into neighboring white neighborhoods - a feature designed in the years before World War 1. [2] Barber shops and beauty salons doubled as meeting places for the politically active local community.
Barber – After being emancipated by his enslaver in 1820, William Johnson became a successful black businessman in Natchez, Mississippi, operating a barber shop, loaning money and acquiring real estate. [5] Merchant – Free-born in Philadelphia, Mifflin Gibbs became a businessman, lawyer, politician, and abolitionist.
Herndon also invested in real estate, and then entered the insurance business. He began by buying a failing mutual aid association in 1905, when the state of Georgia increased capital requirements for such businesses. He had been approached by a couple of ministers in the community to acquire the company as something for the black community.
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The Black barber shop. Black-owned businesses or ones that cater to a Black clientele. Black-owned restaurants and night spots. For Black History Month, The Fayetteville Observer will take a look ...
A story provided by the Tippecanoe County Historical Association about Lafayette's 19th century African American business entrepreneurs.
A barber is a person whose occupation is mainly to cut, dress, groom, style and shave hair or beards. A barber's place of work is known as a barbershop or the barber's. Barbershops have been noted places of social interaction and public discourse since at least classical antiquity. In some instances, barbershops were also public forums.
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