Black Firsts in Business
| Black Entertainment Television (BET) | First Black-owned company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange |
| Ursula Burns | Xerox Chairman and CEO, and the first Black woman to head a S&P 100 company |
| Helen Wilkins Claytor | First Black leader of the YWCA She served as president of the Young Women's Christian Association from 1967 to 1976. |
| International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters | First major African American trade union. Asa Philip Randolph served as the union's first president. |
| Johnson Products Company | First Black-owned company to be listed on the American Stock Exchange |
| Maggie Lena Walker | First Black woman to become president of a bank |
