Double take for Graves

Jet, June 19, 2006

Black Enterprise founder and publisher Earl G. Graves Sr. admires a wax figure of himself after he was inducted into the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum in Baltimore. The induction honored and recognized Graves Sr., who also serves as chairman of Earl G. Graves Ltd., as the business voice of the Black community for nearly 36 years and acknowledged his dedication to education and equal opportunity.

It was commissioned and dedicated by corporate sponsor ExxonMobil. The museum, committed solely to the study and preservation of Black history, exhibits life-sized, lifelike wax figures that showcase historical and contemporary personalities of Black ancestry. Others who have been immortalized in wax have included the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Hon. Thurgood Marshall, and Rosa Parks.