Name: The Spirit That Built America - Theodore Mack Starts America's First Black Owned Brewery
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Description: Theodore Mack grew up in Alabama, the grandson of an enslaved woman. In the late 1960s he decides to pursue his lifelong dream of a black owned brewery. So the Peoples Brewing Company becomes the first African American owned Brewery in the US.

Theodore Mack grew up in Alabama, the grandson of an enslaved woman. In the late 1960s, he decided to pursue his lifelong dream of establishing a Black-owned brewery. Thus, the Peoples Brewing Company became the first African American-owned brewery in the US.

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Theodore Mack grew up in Alabama, the grandson of an enslaved woman. In the late 1960s he decides to pursue his lifelong dream of a black owned brewery. So the Peoples Brewing Company becomes the first African American owned Brewery in the US.

The Spirit That Built America - Theodore Mack Starts America's First Black Owned Brewery

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