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Entrepreneurs & Business Pioneers

A. G. Gaston

1892 – 1996

Demopolis and Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Birmingham entrepreneur who built burial, insurance, funeral, business-school, savings-and-loan and motel enterprises, and quietly backed the 1963 civil rights campaign, including bailing out Martin Luther King Jr.

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The A. G. Gaston Motel in Birmingham, Alabama, built by Gaston and used as civil rights campaign headquarters in 1963
Credit: Carol M. Highsmith, Library of Congress (via National Park Service). License: Public domain.

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Sources

  1. Encyclopedia of Alabama, "A. G. Gaston" (Scholarly)
  2. Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford, "Gaston, Arthur George" (Scholarly)
  3. BlackPast, "A. G. Gaston (1892-1996)" (Reference)

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