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R.H. Boyd and the National Baptist Publishing Board
1896
Centennial Boulevard, Nashville
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Richard Henry Boyd, born enslaved in Mississippi, founded a publishing house so that Black congregations would not have to teach from literature written for white ones. It became one of the largest Black-owned businesses in America, and Boyd went on to start a bank and a doll company that made Black dolls when nobody else would.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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