A.G Gaston & John H Johnson
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28m
A. G. Gaston had a knack for recognizing a void and figuring out how to fill it. He began as a coal miner, but because of his vision and drive, he transitioned from selling lunches to opening funeral homes and building up the Black business district of Birmingham, Alabama. John H. Johnson gave us the most notable Black publications to date, as well as one of the first Black-owned makeup brands. He read books on winning people over and public speaking, which garnered him the attention he would need to get his foot in the door of the publishing
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