Golden Legacy published comic book biographies of such notable figures as Toussaint Louverture, Harriet Tubman, Crispus Attucks, Benjamin Banneker, Matthew Henson, Alexandre Dumas, Frederick Douglass, Robert Smalls, Joseph Cinqué, Walter F. White, Roy Wilkins, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King Jr., Alexander Pushkin, Lewis Howard Latimer, and Granville Woods.

[3] Fitzgerald read Classics Illustrated comic books as a child, but was frustrated to see the African American experience either negatively stereotyped or omitted in their pages.

[2] By the mid-1960s, at that point employed by the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Fitzgerald decided to create a line of nonfiction comic books to inspire and educate his fellow African Americans.

Although the commission men network enabled Fitzgerald to get his comics to his intended audience, he had trouble collecting payment.

Beginning with issue #3, Coke purchased many copies of Golden Legacy in bulk (at a volume discount), distributing them to schools, libraries, churches,[4] and organizations such as the NAACP, the National Urban League and Reading Is Fundamental programs.

The series' final issues enjoyed sponsorship from such companies as A&P, AT&T, Avon, the Bowery Savings Bank, Columbia Pictures, Equitable Life, Exxon, McDonald's, Philadelphia Electric, and Woolworth's.

[1][3] Golden Legacy's final issue, #16, on the Black inventors Lewis Howard Latimer and Granville Woods, was published in 1976.

Fitzgerald Publishing followed the Golden Legacy series with seven issues of the integrated teen humor comic Fast Willie Jackson in 1976 and 1977.