Building Atlanta: How I Broke Through Segregation to Launch a Business Empire by Herman J. Russell
Building Atlanta: How I Broke Through Segregation to Launch a Business Empire
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Herman J. Russell
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Building Atlanta: How I Broke Through Segregation to Launch a Business Empire

Herman J. Russell with Andrew Young, Bob Andelman

304 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction biography business memoir informative reflective fast-paced
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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, ...

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