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Golden Legacy - Black History Comic Books
Golden Legacy was the umbrella title for a line of educational black history comic books published by Fitzgerald Publishing Co. from 1966 to 1976. Golden Legacy produced biographies of such notable figures as Toussaint Louverture, Harriet Tubman, Crispus Attucks, Benjamin Banneker, Matthew Henson, Alexandre Dumas, Frederick Douglass, Robert Smalls, Joseph Cinqué, Walter F. White, Roy Wilkins, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King Jr., Alexander Pushkin, Lewis Howard Latimer, and Granville Woods.
The beneficiary of corporate sponsorship from Coca-Cola Company and a number of other prominent companies, Golden Legacy distributed a total of nine million copies of its 16 32-page full-color volumes, many of them to schools, libraries, churches, and civil rights organizations. Golden Legacy was the brainchild of African American accountant Bertram Fitzgerald, who also wrote seven of the volumes. Many of the other contributors to the Golden Legacy series were also black, including Joan Bacchus and Tom Feelings.
The beneficiary of corporate sponsorship from Coca-Cola Company and a number of other prominent companies, Golden Legacy distributed a total of nine million copies of its 16 32-page full-color volumes, many of them to schools, libraries, churches, and civil rights organizations. Golden Legacy was the brainchild of African American accountant Bertram Fitzgerald, who also wrote seven of the volumes. Many of the other contributors to the Golden Legacy series were also black, including Joan Bacchus and Tom Feelings.
