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  2. Black-owned business - Wikipedia

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    African-Americans have operated virtually every kind of company, but some of the most prominent Black-owned businesses have been insurance companies including North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, banks, recording labels, funeral parlors, barber shops, cosmetics, beauty salons, newspapers, restaurants, soul food restaurants, real estate ...

  3. O. C. Barber - Wikipedia

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    Ohio Columbus Barber (April 20, 1841 – February 4, 1920) was an American businessman, industrialist and philanthropist. He was called "America's Match King" because of his controlling interest in the Diamond Match Company , which had 85 percent of the market in 1881.

  4. Dean's Beauty Salon and Barber Shop - Wikipedia

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    Dean's Beauty Salon and Barber Shop is a historic business and commercial building located in the Eliot neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, United States.Organized in 1954 and purpose-built in 1956, it is one of the relatively few Black-owned businesses to survive the upheavals of urban renewal, disinvestment, and gentrification that decimated the Black business district in lower Albina starting ...

  5. North Minneapolis cosmetology schools aims to cater to all ...

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    "We have 60% Black, about 30% Latino and about 10% White," Taylor said. For students like Jasmine Winn, being at Taylor'd Cosmetology school is a dream come true.

  6. Haitians, residents in Springfield, Ohio, respond to being at ...

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    Joe Ruck, a co-owner of Champion City Cuts Barber Shop in Springfield, said the south side of the city has become known as "Little Haiti." Ruck grew up in Springfield and said Haitian immigrants ...

  7. Near East Side (Columbus, Ohio) - Wikipedia

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    Spring Street YMCA / Ward Home and Storage Facilities. – founded 1919. One of the first to specifically serve the black community. The E.E. Ward Moving Company is the oldest African American owned and operated business, still operating today, in the country. Lincoln Theatre – located on Long Street, opened in 1929 by Al Jackson.

  8. African-American history - Wikipedia

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    Businesses operated at the local level, and included beauty shops, barber shops, funeral parlors and the like. Booker T. Washington organized them nationally into the National Negro Business League. [127] The more ambitious Black businessman with a larger vision avoided small towns and rural areas and headed to progressive large cities. [128]

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