| Summary: | Business executive Byron E. Lewis Sr. was born on December 25, 1931 in Newark, New Jersey. Lewis graduated from Shimer Junior High School and John Adams High School in Queens, New York. In 1953, he received his B.A. degree in journalism from Long Island University. In 1961, Lewis worked as an advertising salesman in Harlem for Citizen Call and Urbanite Magazine. He went on to work for Amalgamated Publications and then Tuesday magazine from 1963 until 1968. In 1969, Lewis established UniWorld Group, Inc., an agency that pioneered the concept of multicultural advertising. UniWorld's clients included major companies such as AT&T, Avon, Burger King, Colgate Palmolive, Eastman Kodak, Ford Motor Co., Mars Candy, and the United States Marine Corps. In 2012, Lewis retired and became UniWorld's chairman emeritus. He received Black Enterprise's AG Gaston Lifetime Achievement Award and was inducted into the American Advertising Federation's Advertising Hall of Fame in 2013.
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