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The first Black-owned travel agency | A Summer Series episode
24.06.2024 - 22:09 / travelweekly.com / Martin Luther King-Junior / Rebecca Tobin
Gaynelle Henderson, left, and Folo host Rebecca Tobin.
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Welcome to our annual Summer Series, where we feature some of our favorite recent Folo by Travel Weekly episodes. In honor of Juneteenth, this week we're highlighting an episode about Henderson Travel, the first Black-owned, accredited travel agency in the U.S.
Among the topics owner Gaynelle Henderson and host Rebecca Tobin discuss: How Henderson Travel came to be in Atlanta in the 1950s, convincing Black Americans to travel abroad, its eventual focus on travel in West Africa, and the agency's work with Black giants like Martin Luther King Jr.
This episode was initially published Feb. 20 and has been edited for length and clarity.
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