Keynote Speaker: John William Templeton

The Trillion Dollar Black Market - Our Roots Run Deep: the Black Experience

Program Titles:

• Success Secrets of Black Entrepreneurs
• Come to the Water: Sharing the Rich Black Experience
• Is There an Obama Play in the Market?
• How African-Americans put California on the Map
• 50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology
• The best risk management is common sense and humility combined with an intellectual curiosity
• How to address the fast growing African-American entrepreneural market
• Unfinished Dream: State of Black Businesses
• Roots Run Deep: the Black Experience in California
• African-American Heritage: 50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology

John William Templeton: Competitive knowledge on markets, entrepreneurship, education and spirituality comes from a single session with John William Templeton

He is the founder of National Black Business Month, a business journalist, historian and demographer.

He speaks the common language of business to unlock the rewards of effectively tackling emerging markets.

African Americans have always known how to celebrate life with a grand spirit. So, when the early pioneers landed in San Francisco during the Gold Rush, William Leisdesdorf, a man of African descent, set up the State's first horse racing events over near Mission Delores.

Perhaps, this is why each block of Delores Street is configued to look like a race track. Later, two Pullman Porters, of African descent, set up shop in the Barbary Coast corridor of Pacific Street and entertained with the best musical and dance talent to be seen west of the Mississippi River. Lew Purcell and Sam King were among a few African Americans whose clubs made the Barbary Coast a destination for perhaps the most integrated good time out seen anywhere in America.

Author of "Our Roots Run Deep", and historian John William Templeton shares with us the highlights of his exhaustive research which places the true facts of this period between 1895 and 1930 onto a well crafted bed of story telling in "Cakewalk". A fascinating period of American history which unfolded in San Francisco and is seldom if ever talked about and certainly hardly ever revealed.

Put yourself in the dancing shoes of Bert Williams and George Walker at the turn of the twentieth century on the Barbary Coast and watch and listen as John William Templeton shares just a bit of "Cakewalk".

Books by John Templeton include:

• Blackmoney: Advanced Strategies for Maximizing the $1 Trillion Blacks Receive Worldwide Yearly
• Unfinished Dream: State of Black Business
• Our Roots Run Deep: the Black Experience
• Success Secrets of Black Executives
• Cakewalk

Audio/Video by John Templeton include:

• Black Students Guide
• Freedom Riders

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