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African-American Resource Center
Firsts in Business

Test your knowledge as it relates to African-Americans in Business.
Choose from answers found below.

Answer Choices

(a) Clifton R. Wharton, Jr.
(b) The Parks Sausage Company
(c) Madame C. J. Walker

(d) Captain William R. Norwood
(e) Isaac Myers

(f) Delano E. Lewis
(g) Harry Pace
  1. __ Who founded the first national African-American Labor Union?
  2. __ Who was the country's first African-American female millionaire?
  3. __ Who was the first African-American pilot hired by a major airline?
  4. __ What was the first African-American owned company to be publicly owned and traded on the stock market?
  5. __ Who owned the first African-American record company?
  6. __ Who was the first African-American to head a Fortune 100 Company?
  7. __Who was the first African-American president of the National Public Radio?

See the business answers.

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