At its high point, more than 300 Black-owned businesses called the city s Northside home. Now, the number of Black-owned businesses in the city is a fraction of that.
At its high point, more than 300 Black-owned businesses called the city s Northside home. Now, the number of Black-owned businesses in the city is a fraction of that.
Sara Spencer Washington, who died at 63 in 1953 in Atlantic City, was a Black millionaire who founded the Apex News & Hair Company in 1919. She parlayed her line of beauty and hair products into international cosmetology schools, which gave thousands of Black women financial independence by helping them to own their own salons.