African American businesspeople
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
National Insurance Association records
Collection
Identifier: 718
Content Description
The National Insurance Association (NIA) was established as the National Negro Insurance Association in Durham, North Carolina, in 1921. Charles Clinton Spaulding, President of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, the nation’s largest African American business, was its inaugural president. The NIA was recognized as the nation’s most effective economic organization for most of the twentieth century, committed to racial uplift and a broad economic and social agenda. It grew to as many...
Dates:
Other: 1971-1991