Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INSIDE, a gaunt black St. Nicholas and an Uhuru poster, chains broken, decorate the walls of the modern office of Freedom Industries, Inc.--a new attempt in Boston to make black power mean money. Downtown Roxbury -- dirty streets sandwiched between grey buildings, and the problems of ghetto poverty--waits outside...
Freedom Industries is a radically different concept from the oft portrayed black business--a mom-and-pop operation, catering to a ghetto clientele, providing a slim income for the owners and few jobs for others. Not a welfare project, the company makes money, and in the process creates jobs, develops talent, and builds influence--commodities long needed in the Roxbury community...
...shooting to be a corporate structure, a single unit of power--in influence, money, and talent," Archie Williams, president of Freedom Industries, explained. As an independent entity within the community, Freedom Industries can efficiently channel its energies toward creating a growth environment in the black ghetto...
...noted that the issue of money was particularly important since a Massachusetts state law gives control of the school budget to the school committee...
...calendar folded and HarBus -- business manager: Lewis--picked up the entertainment news. "An interesting side-light on all this," Lewis said, " is that HSA claimed then that it circulated at the Business School, when of course it didn't at all. They'll stoop to anything to make money...