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Charles Clinton Spaulding

1874 – 1952

Columbus County and Durham, North Carolina, United States

North Carolina-born executive who revived the failing North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company as general manager from 1900, became president in 1923, and made it the nation's largest Black-owned insurer.

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North Carolina Mutual Life Tower in Durham, later headquarters of the insurer Spaulding led
Credit: Warren LeMay, via Flickr. License: CC0.

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Sources

  1. NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography), "Spaulding, Charles Clinton" (Scholarly)
  2. North Carolina Office of Archives and History, Highway Historical Marker, "Durham's 'Black Wall Street'" (via NCpedia) (Primary source)
  3. North Carolina History Project (John Locke Foundation), Troy L. Kickler, "Charles Clinton Spaulding (1874-1952)" (Reference)
  4. UNC Libraries, Documenting the American South, "C. C. Spaulding (Charles Clinton), 1874-1952" (Primary source)

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