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The same can be said of Sweet Potato Pie, Incorporated, a business, located at 140 Auburn Street, that has twenty-eight employees producing more than ten thousand pies a day. In 1983, when he started the business in his home, Edgar Ramsey was working full time as a manager with the Xerox Corporation. In order to make a go of the pie business, he and his wife divided up tasks so that they could be fit into their already busy schedules. Edgar Ramsey recalls the difficulties of those early days:
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During Slavery Paul Cuffe (1759-1817), a free black man, operated his own successful shipbuilding company in Connecticut in the late 1700's and early 1800's. He used the wealth he accumulated to help other blacks. William Johnson, freed in 1820, earned a modest fortune operating barbershops in Natchez, Mississippi in the 1830's and 1840's. He kept detailed records of his business and personal life.
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Born Sarah Breedlove on a Louisiana cotton plantation, Madam C.J. Walker became the first black American woman self-made millionaire. Orphaned at age seven, married at age fourteen, and widowed at twenty with a two-year-old daughter, she moved to St. Louis. She decided to start her own line of hair-care products. In 1906, with a few dollars in savings, she set up a mail-order business in Denver, Colorado with the help of her new husband, Charles Walker.
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The following African Americans are responsible for either inventing, or improving on the invention of, a wide variety of items. From Dr. Charles Drew to Garrett A. Morgan, the inventions of African Americans have played a large role in AMERICAN history.
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Anthony Overton Born Entrepreneur |
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Some people's lives appear to take a straight course, one that begins with set goals and desires, and zooms forward, like an arrow that seeks and finds its target. Along the way, some details of the goal may get refined and even altered, but there is never any doubt that the goal will be achieved. Such people seem unfazed by setbacks, which they make sure are nothing more than temporary.
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