John W. Cromwell Jr., the first Black Certified Public Accountant, graduated with honors from Dartmouth College and earned a master's degree, but...

Pictured here is Arthur J. Wilson, the 2nd Black Certified Public Accountant. He was licensed in 1923 in the State of Illinois, before the state required an apprenticeship...

Imagine it's the early 1900s, and you're a black man sitting among 49 white men trying to fulfill your dream of becoming a Certified Public Accountant...

Jesse B. Blayton, Sr., CPA, graduated from Langston University and served in the US Army during World War I. Mr. Blayton passed the Georgia accounting examination in 1928,..

No one could have imagined in 1922 that the fifth Black Certified Public Accountant would hail from NYU--one of the two top business schools. But just like many of the first Black CPAs,..

In 1937, Paul G. Stewart was the 2nd Black CPA to be licensed in the State of Illinois, making him the 6th Black CPA in the nation...

Louis Rawlings, CPA was the 7th Black CPA. He hailed from Illinois, making him the 3rd Black CPA licensed in the state (1937).

In 1938, Alfred W. Tucker was the 8th Black CPA and the 2nd to be licensed in the State of New York.

Theodore A. Jones was the 9th Black CPA licensed in 1940 and hailed from the state of Illinois by way of Colorado. He attended the University of Illinois, where he studied accounting...

Charles A. Beckett, CPA licensed in 1941 was one of the first African American certified public accountants in Illinois. He was also a community activist who helped...

Richard H. Austin, CPA licensed in 1941 was the first African American CPA in Michigan. He was a senior partner in the firm of...

William Louis Campfield (1912–1993), in 1951 became the first Black CPA Ph.D. He was also the first Black CPA in North Carolina and the first Black person inducted into...

Mary T. Washington CPA licensed in 1943 was the first African American woman to be a CPA in the United States...

G. Steven Marchman III was licensed in the state of Illinois in 1944. Marchman had a firm and was involved with other African American CPAs....

Elmer J. Whiting, Jr., CPA licensed in 1950 in Ohio was the first African American Certified Public Accountant in Ohio and one of the first African American Attorney-CPAs...

Dr. Milton Wilson, CPA was Texas’ first African-American CPA. Licensed in 1952, he was among the nation’s first 100 African-American CPAs and was one of the first seven ...

Dr. Larzette G. Hale, CPA licensed in 1951 in the State of Georgia. She is also the first black female Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in the United States...

Born and raised in St. James Parrish, Louisiana, Melvin Bergeron began his advanced education with the completion of a BS in Business Administration from Xavier University...

Clarence R. Newby, CPA, was born in Abbeville, Alabama, on January 28, 1926. He studied at Tuskegee Institute, University of California - Berkley, and Harms Business College before...

Theodora Rutherford was the first known African American student at Columbia Business School. After a rule change allowed her to become a qualified Certified Public Accountant...

Lester H. McKeever, Jr., was born June 15, 1934, in Chicago. He attended Douglas elementary and Wendell Philips High School. He then graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign ...

Nathan Garrett, licensed in 1961, is one of the first Black CPAs in North Carolina. In 1962, he opened his own practice in North Carolina and was the first African American to do so...