A. G. Gaston

Arthur George Gaston (July 4, 1892 – January 19, 1996) was a businessman who established a number of businesses in Birmingham, Alabama, and who played a significant role in the struggle to integrate Birmingham in 1963.

Early life

The grandson of a slave, A. G. Gaston was born in a log cabin in Demopolis, Alabama, to Tom and Rosa McDonald Gaston; however, he grew up in the home of his grandparents, Joe and Idella Gaston. He moved to Birmingham in 1905 with the Loveman family, who employed his mother as a cook.

Although he had aspired to attend Tuskegee Institute, Gaston’s formal education ended with the 10th grade. After earning his certificate from Tuggle (which only went through the 10th grade. He served in the army in France during World War I, then went to work in the mines run by Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company in Fairfield, Alabama.

Business growth

While working in the mines, he hit on the plan of selling lunches to his fellow miners and then branched into loaning money to them at twenty-five percent interest. It was also while working in the mines that he conceived of the idea of offering burial insurance to co-workers. He had noticed that mine widows would come to the mines and to local churches to collect donations in order to bury their husbands and he wondered if people would "give a few dimes into a burial society to bury their dead". As a result, Gaston formed the Booker T. Washington Burial Society, which later became the Booker T. Washington Insurance Company.

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Łąg

Łąg [wɔnk] (Kashubian: Łãg, German: Long, 1942-45 Schönhain) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Czersk, within Chojnice County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) north-east of Czersk, 37 km (23 mi) north-east of Chojnice, and 71 km (44 mi) south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk.

For details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.

The village has a population of 1,135.

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Coordinates: 53°49′45″N 18°3′52″E / 53.82917°N 18.06444°E / 53.82917; 18.06444

Astronomy & Geophysics

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