A good example of who did would be John D. Rockefeller. He held the biggest oil monopoly in America at the time. Cars were just getting popular, so of course his company-the Standard Oil Company-would come out on top as the go-to gasoline for millions of Americans.
Umm, Homer Plessy was a shoemaker who helped future generations of the Civil Rights Movement. He challenged the law by refusing to move from a seat for white ppl in 1896
