Here’s A Look Inside The First Black-Owned Textile Mill Founded By Warren Clay Coleman
Warren Clay Coleman was considered “the richest Black man in America” in 1900 by opening the first Black-owned textile mill ...
‘Richest Black man in 1900’ built and ran nation’s first Black-owned textile mill in NC
Built by former slaves, the mill was so famous that W.E.B. DuBois included pictures of the building in an exhibit at the ...
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‘Richest Black man in 1900’ built and ran nation’s first Black-owned textile mill in NC
He did so to highlight progress by Black people across the country. But a few years after the mill opened, high cotton prices caused financial difficulties for Coleman’s mill and many others.