Frank L. Gillespie
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Frank L. Gillespie
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Frank L. Gillespie was a businessman who created the first African American-owned life insurance agency outside of the U.S. southern states. Gillespie had been an agent at Royal Life Insurance Company, a white-owned insurance agency, working in the "department for colored people" and noticed his customers were offered "inferior products." He met with a group of prominent black businessmen in Chicago and they worked together to create an insurance company catering towards Chicago's professional A
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American businessman (1876–1925)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_L._Gillespie
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2024-03-14T23:34:56Z
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