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Olive Ann Beech was born on September 25, 1903 in Waverly, Kansas to Franklin Benjamin Mellor and Susannah Miller Mellor. She was the youngest of four girls and would become the co-founder, president, and chairwoman of Beech Aircraft Corporation. Her career spanned 50 years prior to her retirement in September 1982, she was the first woman to head a major aircraft company.
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Fundamental analysis is a method of research that studies financial information to forecast profits, supply and demand, industry strength, management ability, and other factors affecting a stock’s market value and growth potential.
Short-term thinking is not where profits are to be made. As Warren Buffett is quoted to have said, “Our favorite holding period is forever.”
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This week’s “Notable People in History” newsletter features John D. Rockefeller, the businessman and philanthropist who founded the General Education Board in 1902.
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On Tuesday October 29, 1929, just thirty minutes after the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) opened, over 3 million stocks were sold off for a loss of over $2 billion. Losses from the stock market crash helped create the Great Depression, a 10-year economic slump that affected all industrialized countries in the world.
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Considered to be one of the first African American women to become a millionaire, Annie Minerva Turnbo was born in Metropolis, Illinois on August 9, 1869 to Robert and Isabella Turnbo. Turnbo took an interest in hair styling, in particular, developing a better way to straighten African American hair without damaging it. By 1920, Turnbo's hair care empire employed 300 people locally and 75,000 agents nationally.More
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This week's LinkedIn newsletter features Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company. He became fascinated with the steam engine after seeing one on a trip to Detroit with his father. Ford would build the Quadricycle and his use of the assembly line, above average wages, along with other innovations made automobiles affordable to the average American.
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Born Freda Josephine McDonald on June 3 ,1906 in St. Louis, MO, Josephine Baker was a world renowned performer, World War II spy, and civil rights advocate who took part in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom with 250,000 other civil rights supporters. In 1922, she joined the cast of Shuffle Along, which became the first successful African American musical, running for more than 500 performances.More
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With over 1,000 patents to his name, Thomas Edison's inventions include the phonograph, the lightbulb, a kinetographic theater, the magnetic iron ore separator, along with the electrographic vote recorder.
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It’s believed that Elizabeth Freeman, Mumbet, was born between 1742-1744, to enslaved African parents in Claverack, New York. Ruled in their favor, Mumbet and Brom became the first enslaved African Americans to be freed under the Massachusetts constitution of 1780 in Brom & Bett v. Ashley which was argued before a county court in August 1871.More
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Marie Antoinette was born Maria Antonia Josephina Johanna on November 2, 1755 in Vienna, Austria—the musical capital of the world at the time. She was the 15th of 16 children born to Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis of Lorraine.More
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Discover the life of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk… the Turkish nationalist leader and founder and first president of the republic of Turkey who would go on to reform the Turkish alphabet.
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Celebrated in the United States and in various countries around the world, March is Women's History Month. In this post, you'll discover seven influential women who’ve left their mark in various frontiers.
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During Suleiman I's reign, the Ottoman empire extended from Morocco in the East to the tip of Arabia in the Indian Ocean.
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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884 to Elliott Roosevelt and Anna Hall. She worked on social, education, and cultural issues and in 1947 was elected head of the 18-nation U.N. Human Rights Commission. She even published her own newspaper column, called “My Day,” which ran in newspapers across the country, six days a week for nearly 30 years.More
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This week's LinkedIn newsletter features Warren Buffett. He believes that a prudent investor should be more concerned about what’s going on inside of a business than in the stock market.
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Carter G. Woodson, one of the first African-Americans to graduate from Harvard University with a doctorate degree, is credited with establishing Black History Week (then called “Negro History Week”) in 1926, designed to highlight and celebrate the Black experience. Since then, U.S. presidents have proclaimed February as National Black History Month. In this post, you discover seven influential women of African descent who have left their mark in shaping Black history.More
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This week’s “Notable People in History” newsletter features Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates. who started the company with the vision of putting a personal computer on every desk and in every home.
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Frances Ellen Watkins was an African American lecturer, poet, abolitionist, suffragist, and reformer born September 24, 1825 in Baltimore, Maryland. She emphasized that Black women were facing the double burden of racism and sexism at the same time, therefore the fight for women’s suffrage must include suffrage for African Americans.More
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This week’s LinkedIn newsletter, which has been renamed “Notable People in History,” features Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who as a toddler, took a screwdriver to his crib, taking it apart, feeling that he was too old to sleep in a “baby” crib.
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In 1903, Maggie Walker founded the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, offering checking and savings accounts, mortgages, and loans to provide economic empowerment to women and help strengthen Richmond's emerging black middle class.
