From Rags To Riches: The Story Of Alonzo Herndon
Alonzo Herndon, a former slave born in 1858 in Social Circle, sought to better himself and ultimately became Atlanta's first African-American millionaire. An entrepreneur at heart, he learned barbering and eventually opened his own shop in Atlanta called the Crystal Palace and later founded the Atlanta Life Insurance Company. Historian Marcellus Barksdale describes the Crystal Palace as fitting its name. Carole Merritt, director of Herndon Home, takes students on a tour of the house where Alonzo Herndon lived with his wife Adrienne and their son Norris.
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Who Says A Slave Can't Be a Millionaire? What excuse do we have?
@cubedmack
5 жыл бұрын
Dedesegregation!
@techlady3885
4 жыл бұрын
@@cubedmack I agree it was de-segregation that did not serve us. We began to look to others to supply our needs. Rather than supplying ALL of our own needs. We should have remained separate self-reliant producers. Coming to the table with our own products, services and trading with other ethnic groups. Money makes people equal in power, not sitting next to them in classrooms or living next door to them. Money and self-reliance at the bargaining table is what creates generational wealth. This is the great economic equalizer.
@silverbullet537
4 жыл бұрын
TechLady We must to know more about ppl like this, Peter Salem, Salem Poor and the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma so we don’t get offended when someone says “pull yourself up by the boot straps”
@maintain.faith.3657
2 жыл бұрын
None , except taking action to achieve said Goals.
Wow! This was lit! 🔥Incredibly inspiring! No excuses for me!
@ShabazzStone
3 жыл бұрын
Happy to hear that!💪🏾 📈 👔
Thanks for posting this is so Dope
Wow, thanks for this. This is a name YOU NEVER HEAR ABOUT! Love your channel too.
Thank You for sharing this valuable Historical information 🤝
Inspirational! History that should be taught in schools!
Thanks a lot . Much support from ZAR - KwaMashu Rich Future by DSK
Great video
@ShabazzStone
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
Atlanta’s First Black Millionaire: www.watchtheyard.com/alphas/atlanta-first-black-millionaire-alpha-phi-alpha/
No excuses!!!! Now he really had the white man's foot on his neck. We blacks have no excuse today!
Where are his grandchildren?
@jenpop1007
Жыл бұрын
He had one son, no grandchildren. The question is where did his fortune go.
@detriotman
Жыл бұрын
@@jenpop1007 Good 👍 question.
They were basically white .
Mr. Shabazz or others in peace what do you say about Hebrew Israelites that say Alonzo Herndon is a so called white man, his father is a so called white slaveowner.
@michael198427
3 жыл бұрын
It says that in the video