#David l steward movie#

Steward has served on numerous boards and committees including the St. In 2018, Steward donated $1.3 million dollars to the University of Missouri to create the David and Thelma Steward Institute for Jazz Studies. Woods award for Outstanding CEO of the Year. He is a five-time winner in the Fast 50 awards and has also won the Granville T. Steward has received numerous awards and commendations for his work in the technology field. The company was named the number one African American owned business by Black Enterprise magazine for seven consecutive years. World Wide Technology now has 1,381 employees in forty-eight states and six countries. He started the firm in a 4,000 square foot building in Kansas City, Missouri with five employees. In 1990 Steward founded his own electronics distribution company, World Wide Technology, which focuses on telecommunications networks, conversion services, and enterprise wide imaging.

By 1987, Steward established Transport Administrative Services, which focused on discovering underpayments for companies and he quickly established relationships with four of the seven major railroad companies in the United States. The company focused on obtaining refunds for customers who were charged to much by major corporations such as Pfizer, Ford and Campbell’s Soup. During his time at Federal Express, Steward was recognized as Salesman of the Year, and inducted into the company’s Hall of Fame (1981).Īfter working in mid-level positions in corporate America in 1984 Steward purchased a consulting firm he had previously done marketing work for and renamed it Transportation Business Specialists. His next position was as a senior account executive at Federal Express (1979-1984). He remained at the railroad from 1975 to 1979. He then worked at Missouri Pacific Railroad as a sales representative and was the first black person to serve in that position in the company. Steward first worked as a substitute teacher and served as an associate executive for The Boy Scouts of America, where he often went without a paycheck, before taking a job at Wagner Electric as a production manager (1974-1975).

He also attended segregated Clinton Senior High School, graduating in 1969, and then Central Missouri State University, receiving his BS in business management in 1973.

#David l steward movie#

Steward lived through segregated movie theaters and schools and was part of a group that integrated a public swimming pool in 1967. The family bought a small farm, where they lived in poverty. The family of ten relocated to Clinton, Missouri in his youth so his mother could finish her formal education. His father, Harold, was a mechanic, trash collector, and janitor, and his mother, Dorothy, was a homemaker. Stewart was born on Jin Chicago, Illinois. Steward is currently considered the second richest black man in the United States, worth over $3.7 billion dollars. Steward II, please visit our floral store.David L. Steward.ĭavid is preceded in death by his parents David and Dorothy Mae Steward, his sister Carmen Steward brothers Troy Steward and Tony, all of Columbus, Ohio.ĭavid leaves to cherish his memory his daughters Juanita Steward “Jawanna”, her daughter Harley Quinn, sons Liam and O’Shea and Austin, his daughter Ashlee Steward, her daughter Ayshia and Bayi sons Mohammed and Omar, brother Mickey (Helen) Steward, Melvin (Ann) Steward, Terry Steward, Gonzlo (Andrea) Steward and his sisters Mary Alice Steward and Ciara (Willie) Jackson Steward, as well as aunts Tonya Bradley and Debra (James) Farr both from Columbus, Ohio, and a host of family and friends.Įdwards Funeral Service is honored to be serving the family.

He was born August 18, 1959, in Columbus, Ohio to Dorothy Mae Steward and David L. David L Steward II peacefully entered his eternal resting place on September 1, 2022, in Columbus, Ohio at Meadow Grove Rest Home.