#113 A.G. Gaston (Black Titan and the Making of a Black American Millionaire)

Pick any sweltering day in the year nineteen nineteen. On the outskirts of Birmingham, Alabama, in a small mining village, Hundreds of black men are at work. Side by side. Some of the men are convicts.

Some are war veterans. One of these men is on the verge of taking his first step in the direction that of becoming a bona fide millionaire. One hundred times over. A G Gaston.

Started with next to nothing. His mother was a cook in the kitchen of a prominent white family. He never had more than a tenth grade education. After the war. He had taken his position in the mines as a means of survival.

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