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He founded a successful carpentry business in Holly Springs in 1867, and his wife Lizzie became known as a "famous cook". [11] Ida B. Wells was one of their eight children, and she enrolled in Shaw University. [12] In September 1878, both of Ida's parents died during a yellow fever epidemic that also claimed one of her brothers. [13]
Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
In 1972, women-owned businesses accounted for 4.6 per cent of all U.S. businesses—that was about 1.5 million self-employed women. That number increased to 2.1 million in 1979 and 3.5 million in 1984. In 1997, there were about 5.4 million women-owned businesses and in 2007, that number increased to 7.8 million.
Overall, the number of women-owned businesses in the U.S. increased 13.6% from 2019 to 2023, making up 39.1% of all of the country's businesses, according to research from Wells Fargo.
The Chattahoochee Brick Company was a brickworks located on the banks of the Chattahoochee River in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.The brickworks, founded by Atlanta mayor James W. English in 1878, is notable for its extensive use of convict lease labor, wherein hundreds of African American convicts worked in conditions similar to those experienced during antebellum slavery.
After the Civil War, one of his former slaves, Jim Wells (who was still living on the Boling property with his family), moved his carpentry business across the street after Boling urged him to vote for Democrats. [1] Boling built and operated the Johnson's Mill distillery at Randolph's Springs behind his house where Spring Hollow Park is now ...
Applicants must be small business owners of color who are at least 25 years old, have less than $5 million in annual revenue and have a business in one of the following states: CA, CO, CT, FL, GA ...
Two Marietta, Georgia, historic preservation groups have The post Black-owned home in Georgia town gets historic marker, others to come appeared first on TheGrio. Black-owned home in Georgia town ...