By Mike Judd Born in Asheville, North Carolina on February 24, 1852, J.W. Ray spent his youth working as a teamster loading and unloading barges on the docks of the French Broad River. The end of the Civil War and emancipation found him in Maryville, Tennessee where he entered Maryville College and earned a B.A.…
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For decades after the Civil War the African American community dealt with various forms of legal and social discrimination. Nevertheless, professionals and entrepreneurs began to emerge from the community with perhaps the greatest growth occurring after 1900. Like other states in America, Texas began to see practicing professionals and other new business owners come from…
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