Anthony Overton, a pioneering African American businessman, was awarded the Spingarn Medal by the NAACP for his outstanding achievements in business. Overton was a publisher, banker, insurance executive, and cosmetics manufacturer — becoming one of the most successful Black entrepreneurs of his era. He founded Half-Century Magazine, the Victory Life Insurance Company, and the Overton Hygienic Manufacturing Company, one of the first to market cosmetics specifically for Black women.
The Spingarn Medal was established in 1914 by Joel Elias Spingarn, then Chairman of the NAACP Board, to honor outstanding achievement by African Americans annually.
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