{"product_id":"building-atlanta-how-i-broke-through-segregation-to-launch-a-business-empire-paperback","title":"Building Atlanta: How I Broke Through Segregation to Launch a Business Empire - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHerman J. Russell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBob Andelman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAndrew Young\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBuilding Atlanta\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 center of the New South.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHerman J. Russell\u003c\/b\u003e was the founder, CEO, and chairman of the board of H. J. Russell and Company and Concessions International, as well as a nationally recognized entrepreneur, philanthropist, and Atlanta civic leader. Over the course of the last five decades he built one of the nation's most profitable minority-owned business empires, transforming his father's one-man plastering company into a construction and real estate conglomerate. \u003cb\u003eBob Andelman\u003c\/b\u003e is the author or coauthor of 16 biographical, business, management, self-help, and sports books, including \u003ci\u003eBuilt from Scratch\u003c\/i\u003e with Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank, the founders of Home Depot; \u003ci\u003eFans Not Customers\u003c\/i\u003e with Vernon W. Hill, founder of Commerce Bank and Metro Bank UK; and \u003ci\u003eMind over Business\u003c\/i\u003e with Ken Baum. He has written for \u003ci\u003eBusinessWeek\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eSt. Petersburg Times\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida. \u003cb\u003eAndrew Young\u003c\/b\u003e is an activist and pastor, and a former politician and diplomat. He has served as the mayor of Atlanta, a congressman from Georgia's fifth congressional district, and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. A member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference during the 1960s civil rights movement, he was a supporter and friend of Martin Luther King Jr. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772876554528,"sku":"9780912777849","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/7d4c4f608e4bdc93ee7d455a5e759c14.webp?v=1780415968","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/building-atlanta-how-i-broke-through-segregation-to-launch-a-business-empire-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}