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Examining Frank Adair Jr. as an African American CPA pioneer: A Historical Note

In 1932, Frank Adair Jr. achieved his Certified Public Accountant status as the sixth African American CPA in the US. Although his career was brief, it typifies not only the difficulty experienced by an African American achieving this designation in the Jim Crow South, but also the factors that were necessary for such an achievement to occur. 

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