1 option
Building Atlanta : how I broke through segregation to launch a business empire / H.J. Russell ; with Bob Andelman ; introduction by Andrew Young.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Russell, Herman J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Russell, Herman J.
- African American businesspeople--Georgia--Atlanta--Biography.
- African American businesspeople.
- Real estate developers--Georgia--Atlanta--Biography.
- Real estate developers.
- African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta--Biography.
- African Americans.
- Community development--Georgia--Atlanta--History.
- Community development.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (324 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, 2014.
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61374-695-4
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.