Norris B. Herndon

Biography

Norris Bumstead Herndon (July 15, 1897 – June 7, 1977) was a prominent African-American businessman, Harvard Business School MBA graduate, philanthropist, member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, and second President of the historic African-American-owned Atlanta Life Insurance Company. Herndon was the only child of Atlanta, Georgia's first African-American millionaire businessman Alonzo F. Herndon who rose out of chattel enslavement and sharecropping in rural Georgia and founded Atlanta Life in 1905. The Atlanta Life Insurance Company, founded in the era of violent white racial animosity and vitriolic Jim Crow segregation, cemented its operational success through a commitment to sustained financial solvency and promptness in paying claims.

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