Southern Aid and Insurance Company
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The Southern Aid and Insurance Company is an insurance company that was founded in 1893, just 28 years after the end of the Civil War, by a group of black men (American men of African ancestry) in Richmond, Virginia. The purpose was to furnish adequate and affordable insurance protection to African-Americans.[1] The company was the first chartered insurance company organized by blacks in the United States and had the distinction of being the oldest black owned and operated insurance company in the nation. It was also the largest African-American insurance company in the United States at one time. The company's name was later changed to the Southern Aid Society of Virginia which was the forerunner of the Southern Aid Life Insurance Company.
The Company’s President was Armistead Washington and Secretary was W. A. Payne.
The company wrote insurance for industrial life, accident and sick benefits insurance. They were licensed in New Jersey, Virginia and District of Columbia.
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- ^ Staff (March 1940). "An "A-Plus" Insurance Company". The Crisis (The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc.) 47 (3): 78–79. http://books.google.com/books?id=3loEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA78#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
