Firsts in Business Answers
- (e) Isaac Myers was the country's first national African-American Labor Union.
- (c) Madame C. J. Walker was the country's first African-American female millionaire.
- (d) Captain William R. Norwood was the first African-American pilot hired by a major airline.
- (b) The Parks Sausage Company was the first African-American owned company to be publicly owned and traded on the stock market.
- (g) Harry Pace owned the first African-American record company.
- (a) Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. was the first African-American to head a Fortune 100 Company.
- (f) Delano E. Lewis was the first African-American president of the National Public Radio.
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