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Check out this article on business owner Barbara Procter, the first African American female to own an Advertising Agency.

“I think blacks have a different acceptance of reality than white people,” she once told the publication Working Woman. “We’re more realistic. There is less fear. . . . Once you’ve been poor and black and you survive, there’s nothing left to be afraid of.” - Barbara Procter

Barbara Proctor, first African American woman to own an advertising agency, dies at 86 Her company, founded in 1970, was called Proctor and Gardner Advertising. But there was only one founder behind it — Barbara Proctor, maiden name Gardner.