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A. G. Gaston

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A. G. Gaston has been gone for more than two decades, but the impact of the legendary pioneer of Birmingham's business community is alive and well.

Arthur George (A.G.) Gaston played a little-noticed role in history. An African-American man born in a log cabin in Demopolis, Ala., in 1892, he defied the social climate of the times to become a business leader, and later, a behind-the-scenes political leader at a critical time in civil rights history.

 

 

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WEBSITES:

http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-2062

https://www.aggbgc.org/dr-gastons-legacy

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/gaston-g-1892-199

https://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?id=5796/

http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-2062

BOOKS:

The A.G. Gaston Motel in Birmingham : a civil rights landmark / Marie A. Sutton

A.G. Gaston : portrait of a dream : (don’t give up your dream) : the biography of A.G. Gaston, Birmingham’s self-made millionaire / by Dorothy Swygert

A.G. & me : intersecting roads and friendship with A. G. Gaston / Roderick Royal


Black Titan : A.G. Gaston and the making of a Black American millionaire / Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth Gardner Hines

 

           The A.G. Gaston Motel in Birmingham: A Civil Rights Landmark (American Heritage)Green Power: The Successful Way of A.G. GastonA. G. Gaston: Visionary Businessman (Alabama Roots Biography Series)Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire
Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it. - A. G. Gaston