Word: wooten
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Negro athletes, who have easy entree with blacks and whites alike, have formed combines to assist fellow Negroes. Three years ago, a group of pro football players, including the Cleveland Browns' ex-Fullback Jimmy Brown and the Washington Redskins' Guard John Wooten, started the nonprofit Negro Industrial and Economic Union. With a $520,000 grant from the Ford Foundation and $251,000 from the Commerce Department, the union has helped finance firms in half a dozen cities. Using such aid, former Barber Dennis Taylor, 29, has built his year-and-a-half-old Magnificent Natural Products...