African American businesspeople
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Parks Sausage Company photograph and ephemera collection
Collection
Identifier: PP 0344
Abstract
The Parks Sausage Company was founded in 1951 in Baltimore, Maryland by entrepreneur Henry G. Parks, Jr. and became the first African American-owned business to be publicly traded on the New York Stock exchange. The collection consists of black and white photographs and ephemera related to the company and Henry Parks from 1960-1983.
Dates:
circa 1960-1967, 1983