![]() ![]() While Oprah Winfrey, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Michael Jordan, and Will Smith are among the estimated 35,000 black millionaires in the nation today, these famous celebrities were not the first blacks to reach the storied one percent. The astonishing untold history of America’s first black millionaires-former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring Twenties-self-made entrepreneurs whose unknown success mirrored that of American business heroes such as Henry Ford, John D. ![]() ![]() BLACK FORTUNES: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires, by Shomari Wills ![]()
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