Norris Herndon was born on July 15, 1897 (to June 7, 1977). He was the second president of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, founded by his father, Alonzo Herndon, in 1905. He was an important philanthropist, and an active member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, the first collegiate-level fraternal organization for African American men. Norris Bumstead Herndon was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the only child of Alonzo Herndon, who had been born into slavery, and Adrienne Elizabeth McNeil, a graduate […]

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