Business

Pierre Toussaint

*Pierre Toussaint was born on this date in 1766. He was Haitian immigrant to America, businessman and philanthropist.

John Quincy Adams

*John Quincy Adams was born on this date in 1848. He was a black businessman and newspaper publisher.

Adams was one of four children of the Reverend Henry Adams, minister of the Fifth Street Baptist Church of Louisville, Kentucky, and Margaret Priscilla Corbin of Chillicothe, Ohio. He received his elementary and secondary education in private schools at Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and Yellow Springs, Ohio, later graduating from Oberlin College in Ohio. Upon graduation he returned to Louisville where he began teaching in his father's school and in other parts of the state.

*On this date in1885, William C. Carter patented an umbrella stand. Carter, an African-American inventor’s file number is U.S. patent #323,397.

Barbara Cyrus

*Barbara Cyrus was born on this date 1917. She was an African-American librarian, journalist, editor, author and activist.

Thomas Flemings

*Thomas Flemings was born on this date in 1907. He was an African-American newspaper journalist.

From Jacksonville, Florida his grandmother initially raised Fleming. At the age of 8 his family moved to Harlem, New York and in 1919 they moved to Chico, California. In 1926 he graduated from Chico High School and began working as a bellhop for the Admiral Line, (then) spending five years as a cook for the Southern Pacific Railroad. He entered journalism in the early 1930s as an unpaid writer for the Spokesman, a progressive Black newspaper in San Francisco.