Afro-American Life Insurance Company Collection 1951-1965

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Afro-American Life Insurance Company Collection 1951-1965

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The collection consists of printed materials which provide an overview of the Company's business history and activities in the early to mid-twentieth century. Holdings include two issues of the in-house publication, "Pilot" (1962, 1964), and the Fiftieth Anniversary booklet, "Golden Anniversary, 1901-1951, Afro-American Life Insurance Co." A supplement to the newspaper, "The Pittsburgh Courier" (May 12, 1956), features the Company's new building in 1956. Numerous images of company employees and administrators are shown in this 24 page supplement, as well as advertisements from other companies congratulating the Afro-American on the occasion of the opening of the new building.

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Thomas G. Carpenter Library, University of North Florida

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Afro-American Life Insurance Company

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The Afro-American Life Insurance Company was an historic Jacksonville, Fla., business founded in 1901 by Abraham Lincoln Lewis, Rev. E.J. Gregg, Rev. J. Milton Waldron and others. During the early twentieth century, it served as the leading financial center of the African American community in Jacksonville, which was reflected in the name change in 1918 to the Afro-American Industrial Insurance Company. The Company routinely sponsored charitable and educational activities. With competition from ...