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...... . . - U.S. News & World Report Exclusive Interview- A NEGRO BUSINESSMAN SP A S HIS MIND Witt racial demonstrations, now spreading ocrou a,e nation, solve the Negro's problems? Is the N gro actually a "second-class citizen"? If so, who is to blame-the white man? You g t unexpected answers to these and other questi0ns from a leading Negro busine~sman. he is S. B. Fuller, intervi~wed in Chicago by a member of the staff of "U.S. New!> & World Report." His conclusions: A Negro, like anybody els~, can get ahead only by hard work and enterprisa. .<\t CHICAGO of opr ,rlumty clo lo U,e Jll Ill > 'I n ( PHI ht l .. 111 · \\'orl l .ltt>pm·t. Ju , l) S EV.'i & W R,O REP RT Asnu,1 19 19 �Mr Fuller ,nsp cts Born of poor parents in Louisiana, Mr fuller went to ~,honl only 0\ for OS the si,:th grade. Moving to Chicago as o roung r,,o 1, he started the fuller Product! Company 1n l 93.5 on capital of $2 5. Today its g10H soles coine to more thori IO million d1Jllo1s a year. While h oppose~ the vi~ s rind toc. ,cs bc1 ,g used b)· militant' Negro s, Mr. Fu"ier descr·bes h111Hclf os on "integrotion15t' -pointing out thnt S 8. ful er ut !i8, hos reached o level of b,isint'U s ~ Ce$ o toined bv ' w ncn- while or Ne91(), In odditi n to the Fuller f'rod ~ Co ,pony, wh•ch produces o no•,ooolly known line of co,fl' trcs ond all, .d produc,s, he controls t'igh ol r co• orolton A'Tlong them i~ o de rntment ~tc-re 1n Chi ago, or ol tote tr.i ;n ew York, ur "Couri , ' choin of ne paper serving Negro readers 111 (h rogo N "" V rk Deir nd Pithb p rations at his cosmetics plant ,n Chicago 0

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NEW & W< Lt. 11 P( Rr A I 1, 1963 61 �• 1,. ... RICH ARD B . RUSSE LL ML ·.-1orr?: GEORG IA A PPJH)rHlf,Tl ,H ~<; CC,~AMli f EE 1\1 JJONAlJ I IC AL Ar ·t) !'> I',\( C SC"lt N l ! '.:i, lOMMt I II t J O I NT COM/Ill I 11 ! ( , f l , \ I 1MI ( I tJEHGY OL-M\)C f1A l ll i 1L\{Yt"llMt,1IIIL L O LMOC.IU\r1l. ,.,il.1 l-!JrH.i l Of,H.•1!Tl f. L CHAI RMA N: ARM ED SE RV I CES COMM I fTEE SE LECT CO MM ITTEE ON THE C EN TR A L I NTELLIGL:NCE AGE i-i C Y APPHOPl<IAl l rlSLJiJC-OMMlf"IETS WASHINGlUN, D.C . A C,U lC"' tJl TIJ ~ l APrROPR I AT I ONS SUl3COMM ITTEE ON TH E DEt-'AR fMENT OF DEFENSE ['II I lC II n ~ lf ,;•, l',I ' , I ' ,. I Mll fl l(.HI A• ,·1 Ii I /HOlf \\ l l I Al~' August 25 4 1965 l ll'I l '• T rJCJf '; ~ ~ ) f, ,1 t ,Clf', ,t (':,T ' I l f d l f, TI MIL ITJt.• •, (,I I ""11 • ,r,\l -ir . II.I l All IH. I Iii / f Ii t ,'\Tl (I !'\/, J C "l l', '..J 1 l\f,1 ', ,.If S 'fr, ,, , · l••·CT I O t~ rl Ct IC W(.i,1 ·-~ Mr. Jack J . Rushin 377 Techwood Drive , N. W. Atlanta 13 3 Georgia Dear Friend : Permit me to a cknowledge andthi:rnk you fnr se nd i.ng me a sopy of your l etter t o the Se cretary of State. I deplore v·olence under any circu~st~nces ~nd especially so when it. is relu.ted to t:he r;..c iul siLuation . One o f the inescapable l essons of h .:..story s h ows t11u t i t is much ·"!asier to gcncral-::c mob action than i t is to contrn l it. Those in high off ice 11ave no ideu of the untold dumage they r1re doing to "Jur consl:itutional sys tem ])y approving these dcrnonstr.1Li..n n s. I havr. :1.Ltad e d thi..:::; attitudo time ,1.nd aguin, but unfortunu.t.el y , Lhe rest of t h e country hr1s chos0n to rnilkc t110. South t.h0. whipping :::'Jy in illl rue i;J.l rn;J. ttr;rs a nd t.hrnnqh t.h e u se 0f all. of. t1v.' communicr1tions fT"' di ,.t (incl11clin(_J hic1 abu:;c' of U1c Lc1cvi ~; i o n) h"1vc gcn0rc1tr;,l f00li.vJ ,7q1Ln:--;l. t.hr; South- <1rnc11.1nt1-nq ,, l11t<..J~~t t.o ,1 nationa 1 di •;cc1 ,c, TJnfort·.un;-t t.r~ly , t.hc "<'h i.c1<:c' n'.' w i 11 cnrnt' home to roost " vith l11r'm, for c1.tt.,ck on nrcl er:- l y <Jovcrrnw,nt c7.n on l y rr~su l t 1n ,l.l1L cc'. 1y. With ev0ry good wu;h, T am Si.ncorely, �