Spaulding, Charles Clinton
1874-1952 · Contribution: 1900-1952
Served as General Manager and later third president of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company for nearly three decades
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Spaulding's decades of management turned North Carolina Mutual into the largest Black-owned business in the country, making him one of the most influential Black executives of the first half of the 20th century.
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