Gulf Oil ad featuring Herbert Bean

Gulf Oil ad featuring Herbert Bean
This ad, published in the Black newspaper Louisville Defender, highlights how Herbert Bean’s success as a Black station owner symbolized larger social and economic progress. At the height of the civil rights era of the 1960s, companies began making a point of showcasing Black employees and franchise owners in their advertising. | Creator: Gulf Oil Corporation | Date: November 4, 1965 | Source: Louisville Defender | Rights: ©Louisville Defender 1965. This image is used under the “fair use” provisions of the Copyright Act of 1976, Section 107, which allows for use of copyrighted materials for nonprofit, educational purposes. 
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