Building Atlanta: How I Broke Through Segregation to Launch a Business Empire - Couverture rigide

Russell, Herman J.; Andelman, Bob; Young, Andrew

 
9781613746943: Building Atlanta: How I Broke Through Segregation to Launch a Business Empire
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ISBN 10 : 1613746946 ISBN 13 : 9781613746943
Editeur : Chicago Review Press, 2014

Synopsis

Born into a blue-collar family in the Jim Crow South, Herman J Russell built a shoeshine business when he was twelve years old and used the profits to buy a vacant lot where he built a duplex while he was still a teen. Over the next fifty years, he continued to build businesses, amassing one of the nation's most profitable minority-owned conglomerates. In this book Russell shares his inspiring life story and reveals how he overcame racism, poverty, and a debilitating speech impediment to become one of the most successful African American entrepreneurs, Atlanta civic leaders, and unsung heroes of the civil rights movement. Not just a typical rags-to-riches story, Russell achieved his success through focus, planning, and humility, and he shares his winning advice throughout. As a millionaire builder before the civil rights movement took hold and a friend of Dr King, Ralph Abernathy, and Andrew Young, he quietly helped finance the civil rights crusade, putting up bond for protestors and providing the funds that kept King's dream alive. He provides a wonderful behind-the-scenes look at the role the business community, both black and white working together, played in Atlanta's peaceful progression from the capital of the racially divided Old South to the financial centre of the New South.

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À propos de l?auteur

Andrew Young was born in New Orleans in 1932. In 1960, he joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He served as its executive director from 1964 to 1970. He was elected to three terms in Congress and two terms as Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. He was the first African American to be appointed U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

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Éditeur
Chicago Review Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1613746946
ISBN 13 
9781613746943
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0912777842 ISBN 13 :  9780912777849
Editeur : Chicago Review Press, 2017
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