Albon Holsey

Albon L. Holsey (May 31, 1883 - January 16, 1950) was a businessman and advocate for African American businesses. He served as executive secretary of the National Negro Business League. He received a William E. Harmon Foundation Award for Distinguished Achievement Among Negroes.

His parents were Albon Chase Holsey and Sallie Thomas Holsey. He attended the Knox Institute in Athens, Georgia and Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia.[1]

He served as executive secretary for Robert R. Moton of Tuskegee Institute who was president of the National Negro Business League.[2]

Holsey was born in Athens, Georgia on May 31, 1883. He married Basiline Boyd on October 3, 1906. He worked at Tuskegee Institute for 37 years from 1914. He received the Harmon Award for achievements in business in 1950. He died in Tuskegee, Alabama on January 16, 1950.

He spoke in support of businesses owned by African Americans, encouraging patronage at them.[3] He wrote about the personal aspects of discrimination against African Americans[4] including from when they are children.[5]

He is buried in Tuskegee.[6]

  1. ^ "Holsey, Albon L. | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com.
  2. ^ "Guide Text-Booker T. Washington Papers. National Negro Business League Correspondence, 1922 (A-B)". memory.loc.gov.
  3. ^ Thomas, Richard W. (August 22, 1992). Life for Us Is What We Make It: Building Black Community in Detroit, 1915--1945. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253113156 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Litwack, Leon F. (August 24, 1999). Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow. Vintage Books. ISBN 9780375702631 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ Hutchinson, George (August 24, 1995). The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674372627 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ "National Negro Health News". United States Public Health Service. August 24, 1950 – via Google Books.