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William C. March
William Carrington March (February 4, 1923 – August 2, 2002), was an entrepreneur. He and his wife Julia R. March founded March Funeral Homes located in Baltimore, Maryland, the largest African American funeral services company in the United States.〔http://baltimore.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2006/11/27/focus2.html〕
March was born in Mount Pleasant, North Carolina to Carrington March, a Lutheran minister, and Georgia March. In 1928, his father moved his family to Baltimore, after taking a ministry job there. However, the Marches soon discovered that there was racial prejudice even within the church. Carrington March was removed from his Baltimore ministry because he was black. Lutheran officials offered him a church of his own in Selma, Alabama, but he refused to take his family to the deep South.
==Began Working as a Child==
The Great Depression started in the United States in the late 1920s, there were especially hard economic times for all working people. When William March was only ten years old he began working selling newspapers to contribute to his family's income. The small amount of money he earned was given to his sister Thelma to pay for her transportation to school. At the age fourteen March went to work setting pins at a local bowling alley. At the same time he started Dunbar High School in east Baltimore where he attended ninth and tenth grades. He later attended Fredrick Douglass High the west side of the city for eleventh. He worked hard in school and dreamed of becoming an architect. However, he knew he had little chance of going to college to get the education required for that career. March eventually was forced to quit school so that he could help support his family. He took a job digging ditches at Edgewood Arsenal, he then moved on to the factory line. Because so many black students had to help support their families, Douglas High School began to offer night classes, and March attended every night after work until he earned his diploma.〔4
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