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1 online resource (324 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Front Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword by Andrew Young; Prologue; PART I: Growing, Working, and Learning; 1: Life, One Word at a Time; 2: High School Hero; 3: Tuskegee Institute: An Educated Class; PART II: H.J. Russell & Company: Atlanta's Do-It-All Contractor; 4: Black Entrepreneurship Takes Hold; 5: Otelia Hackney: A Black Woman Emerges; PART III: Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement; 6: Swimming at the Deep End of Social Change; 7: Black Entrepreneurship Takes Hold; 8: My Big Greek Brother (From Another Mother); 9: Desegregating the Good Ol' Boys. |
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10 A Leg Up and Over: Joint Ventures; PART IV: It's a Living; 11: Before Takeoff and After Landing International; 12: The Beer Years; 13: The H.J. Russell Institute of Good Common Sense; 14: Mixing Business and Politics; PART V: Family First; 15: The Wonders of Otelia; 16: Born Leaders; 17: ... And Hello to Sylvia; PART VI: Sixty Years Later; 18: All the Rest of My Days; Acknowledgments; Index; About the Author; About the Coauthor; Back Cover. |
| Summary |
Born into a blue-collar family in the Jim Crow South, Herman J. Russell built a shoeshine business when he was 12 years old-and used the profits to buy a vacant lot where he built a duplex while he was still a teen. In the ensuing 50 years, Russell has continued to build and develop businesses, amassing one of the most influential and profitable minority-owned business conglomerates. In Building Atlanta, he shares his inspiring life story, revealing how he overcame racism, poverty, and a debilitating speech impediment to become one of the most successful. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Russell, Herman J.
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Russell, Herman J. |
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African American businesspeople -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Biography.
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African American businesspeople. |
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Georgia -- Atlanta. |
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Biographies.
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Real estate developers -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Biography.
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Real estate developers. |
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African Americans -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Biography.
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African Americans. |
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Community development -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History.
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Community development. |
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Andelman, Bob.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Russell, Herman J. Building Atlanta. Chicago : Chicago Review Press, ©2014 9781613746943 |
| ISBN |
9781613746950 (electronic book) |
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1613746954 (electronic book) |
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9781613746974 (electronic book) |
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1613746970 (electronic book) |
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1306477840 (electronic book) |
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9781306477840 (electronic book) |
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9781613746943 (cloth) |
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1613746946 (cloth) |
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