Harry Herbert Pace (January 6, 1884 – July 19, 1943) was an American music publisher and insurance executive.

According to a 1917 biography Pace's "Grandfather was brought from Virginia to Georgia during the days of slavery, but was manumitted by his master, to whom he was related.

Pace enrolled at Atlanta University and found work as a printer's devil to pay his way through school.

Pace saw the growing popularity of the phonograph would shift the music business as it reached a wider audience.

Du Bois, the label was named for singer Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, who was called "the Black Swan.

"[8] At the time of the establishment of the label, Pace declared There are twelve million colored people in [the] US, and in that number there is hid a wonderful amount of musical ability.

His first releases featured performances of light classical music, blues, spirituals, and instrumental solos.

In 1925, Pace founded the Northeastern Life Insurance Company in Newark, New Jersey, which became the largest African-American-owned business in the North during the 1930s.

Harry Pace’s children began living as white and never spoke of him again; shrouding his legacy within a family secret.