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Cortez W. Peters Sr. was a world-record holding speed typist who, along with his son, Cortez W. Peters Jr., opened the first black-owned business schools in the United States - the Cortez Peters business schools. Schools were established in Washington D.C., Baltimore, and Chicago, and during their tenure trained approximately 45,000 students.

Cortez W. Peters Sr. learned to type at the age of 11, when his father, a watchmaker, accepted a typewriter as bartered payment from a client.

Peters Sr. won his first international typing championship in 1925 with a 141 word per minute perfect timing on a manual typewriter. As typewriter technology advanced and he continued to improve his technique, later in his life Cortez Sr. set a typing world record of 180 words per minute on a manual typewriter, without a single mistake (an average of 15 keystrokes per second). He holds numerous unbroken records, including 148 words per minute, for 60 straight minutes, without a single error, without subtracting out time required to change typing paper.

Peters developed special competition keyboarding methods and techniques that became the foundation of modern typing instruction worldwide.

In 1934 Peters, Sr. opened the first Cortez Peters Business School in Washington, D.C.; followed by the opening of two more locations, in Baltimore (1935) and Chicago (1941). The Cortez Peters Business Schools remained in operation until the mid-1970s.

The schools were among the first privately owned African American schools in the nation, teaching the skills of typing, shorthand and other clerical skills to a black audience. In addition to typing, the schools also taught shorthand and other clerical skills to help African Americans break into white collar professions. Eventually the school expanded to cover 22 subjects and taught an estimated 100,000 students across all three locations.

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Swansboro is a neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia. It is a part of Southside Richmond.

History
Swansboro is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Richmond, Virginia. It was established as part of the city of Manchester, but was consolidated with the city of Richmond in 1910. Swanwsboro is a residential neighborhood with a large number of bungalows and other single-family residences. Several commercial corridors including Hull Street and warehouse areas are within the Swansboro neighborhood.