Dr. John Talmadge Givens was one of the youngest successful businessmen in Norfolk during the early 1900s. Givens was born on December 24, 1890, in Aiken, South Carolina. His father was a contractor. After attending the public schools in Aiken, he enrolled at Claflin University in Orangeburg, SC. While in college, he found work through […]

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