Black Americans need to know and respect our heritage. Know the
contributions of your ancestors, and you will learn who you are.
One of America's greatest strengths today is "diversity." An
African American who blazed the trail toward diversity,
innovation, and marketing creativity across corridors in
corporate America while concurrently opening doors previously
closed to Blacks is corporate pioneer of note, Houston native
Henry Hartford Brown. The career of Brown should be of
highlighted because he is one of a select few Blacks hired by
corporate American companies in upper-level sales positions to
target and develop the African-American consumer market. Brown
should be remembered for the successes he had in the development
and implementation of effective community relations over the
three decades he practiced his trade with Anheuser-Busch. As
corporate liaison to its "special markets" Brown indelibly
etched Anheuser-Busch and Budweiser's name among Black leaders
and their communities. As part of a groundbre