NEW LAVILLA FILES | Lost Fortunes II: The Wealthy Black Women Who Inherited Empires Before the Civil Rights Act—And Where Their Wealth Went (Part 21 of 28, Belle Da Costa Greene) - Free Press of Jacksonville

NEW LAVILLA FILES | Lost Fortunes II: The Wealthy Black Women Who Inherited Empires Before the Civil Rights Act—And Where Their Wealth Went (Part 21 of 28, Belle Da Costa Greene) - Free Press of Jacksonville

In the first part of this series, Lost Fortunes, we celebrated Black women entrepreneurs and business owners who built empires before the Civil Rights Era marked by President Lyndon B. Johnson’s signing of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. These women were fearless innovators, trailblazers, and contributors to the economic growth of the nation. Among them are Amanda America Dickson, who inherited her wealth, and Henrieta Duterte, who built her own e…