Atlanta Life
Alonzo Herndon
Atlanta Life Insurance in its early days
The Atlanta Life Financial Group was founded by Alonzo Herndon, who was born a slave, but became Atlanta's richest African American. The demolished public housing project Herndon Homes was named for Herndon.
In 1905 he purchased The Atlanta Benevolent and Protective Association (later called Atlanta Mutual) for $140, which in 1922 was renamed the Atlanta Life Insurance Company.[1]
The Atlanta Life Insurance Company building (built 1920) at 148 Auburn Avenue, near the corner of Piedmont Avenue, is part of the National Park Service's Martin Luther King, Jr., Preservation District.[2]
References
- ↑ Atlanta Life Financial Group Archived August 31, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Official National Park Service Map of Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site & Preservation District
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