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William "Little Willie" Adams (January 5, 1914 - June 27, 2011) became Baltimore City's first major African-American venture capitalist. Adams was born on January 5th, 1914, in Zebulon, North Carolina, and arrived in Baltimore, Maryland in 1929, when he moved in with his aunt and uncle on North Bond street. Adams worked with multiple black-owned businesses by bankrolling many of them. Adams was a businessman who was also invested in real estate as well as being a political heavyweight. William "Little Willie" Adams might have been one of the wealthiest black men in America, with an estimated worth of $40 million in the late 1970s. Adams died Monday, June 27th, 2011 from pneumonia at Roland Park Place.