Black Titan A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire birthday "Don't go in the water

"Don't go in the water

and marching-band practice

there’s always a way

he probably has a shot at the pros

In God’s Trombones

Black Titan A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire birthday "Don't go in the waterThe grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A. G. Gaston died more than a century later with a fortune worth well over $130 million and a business empire spanning communications, real estate, and insurance. Gaston was, by any measure, a heroic figure whose wealth and influence bore comparison to J. P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie. Here, for the first time, is the story of the life of this extraordinary pioneer, told by his niece