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    Anthony Overton Jr. (March 18, 1864 – July 2, 1946), was an American banker and manufacturer. He was the first African American to lead a major business...
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    The Anthony Overton Elementary School is a historic school building at 221 E. 49th Street in the Grand Boulevard community of Chicago, Illinois. The building...
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    Manufacturing Company, also known as Overton Hygienic Company, was a cosmetics company established by Anthony Overton. It was one of the nation's largest...
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    Chicago Sunday Bee was a Chicago-based weekly newspaper founded by Anthony Overton, an African American, in 1925. Its readership was primarily African...
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    was founded by the African American entrepreneur Anthony Overton in 1926. This building was Overton's affirmation of his confidence in the viability of...
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  • Planet and president of the National Afro-American Press Association; Anthony Overton (1865–1946), publisher of the Chicago Bee, and Robert Lee Vann (1879–1940)...
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  • Proclamation. The magazine included fashion advice. Anthony Overton founded the magazine. Despite Overton's role, Katherine E. Williams, who became Katherine...
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    contributed to the redevelopment of a former elementary school in Chicago, Anthony Overton Elementary School. In this building, Wright's goal was to include equipment...
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  • and Their Orations for his outstanding work as an historian." 1927 Anthony Overton "President of Victory Life Insurance Company, the first black company...
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    became successful and dominated the Black hair care market. In 1898, Anthony Overton founded a hair care company that offered saponified coconut shampoo...
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  • literature, music, fine arts, business and industry (such as banker Anthony Overton in 1927), science and innovation, education (for example, educator...
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  • the name Overton include: Al Overton, Jr., American sound engineer Anthony Overton (1865–1946), American banker and manufacturer Ben Overton (1926–2012)...
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  • American architect in Chicago. He designed buildings for Anthony Overton including the Overton Hygienic Building and the Chicago Bee Building for the Chicago...
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    Planet and president of the National Afro-American Press Association; Anthony Overton (1865–1946), publisher of the Chicago Bee; Garth C. Reeves Sr. (1919–2019)...
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    powder for African-American women created by Anthony Overton in 1898, called the High-Brown Face Powder. Overton made multiple darker tones of face powder...
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  • 1950, in St Lukes Hospital. He was buried in Oak Woods Cemetery. Anthony Overton Chicago Whip Don Hayner. Binga: The Rise and Fall of Chicago’s First...
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    Planet and president of the National Afro-American Press Association; Anthony Overton (1865 – 1946), publisher of the Chicago Bee, and Robert Lee Vann (1879...
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  • Manufacturing Company, where his interest in business was cultivated by Anthony Overton. He later obtained employment as a cashier at Binga State Bank and...
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  • Publishing Company Associate editor Joseph Dandridge Bibb Financier Anthony Overton, Jesse Binga, and Oscar DePriest Founded June 24, 1919; 104 years ago (1919-06-24)...
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    (1970). Weems Jr, Robert E. The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago: Anthony Overton and the Building of a Financial Empire (U of Illinois Press, 2020)...
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    literature, music, fine arts, business and industry (such as banker Anthony Overton in 1927), science and innovation, education (for example, educator...
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    Planet and president of the National Afro-American Press Association; Anthony Overton (1865–1946), publisher of the Chicago Bee, and Robert Lee Vann (1879–1940)...
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    group consisted of five brothers: Anthony Harrell, Cheyenne Harrell, Grady Harrell III, Jacob Harrell and Jared Overton. The group was formed in 2002 and...
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    Year Title 1865 1946 Anthony Overton 1877 1957 Annie Turnbo Malone 1867 1919 Madam C. J. Walker...
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    Chicago after serving in World War I. Dawson's clients also included Anthony Overton and Jesse Binga, the magazine Reflexus and director Oscar Micheaux...
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    solicitor Arthur Quayle, of a Manx family, and Esther Kate Quayle (née Overton). He was educated at Abberley Hall School, a preparatory school in Abberley...
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  • Diggs (April 22, 1908 - November 10, 1980) was the managing editor of Anthony Overton's Chicago Bee from 1929 until it closed in 1947, a public official advocating...
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    violence. To maintain self-esteem and dignity, African Americans such as Anthony Overton and Mary McLeod Bethune continued to build their own schools, churches...
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  • Iain Overton (born 1973) is a British investigative journalist and the author of The Price of Paradise: How the Suicide Bomber Shaped the Modern World...
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