Financial Document

Stock certificate for BET Holdings, Inc.

This object highlights African American leadership, entrepreneurship, and organizations.

Specimen stock certificate for BET Holdings, Inc. The stock certificate has a blue patterned border with a black and white illustration at the top center of an African American man and woman sitting in front of a computer. Black type directly below the illustration reads “BET HOLDINGS, INC. / INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE.” Stamped at the center of the certificate in red ink is “SPECIMEN.” The back of the stock certificate is a legal form with blank lines unfilled throughout.

1991

1990s

African American business enterprises
African American mass media
Business
Stock certificates
Television

BET Holdings, Inc.

Original: 8 × 12 in. (20.3 × 30.5 cm); Digital image: 500 × 343 pixels

Ink on paper

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

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