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Booker T. Washington, whose Tuskegee Institute, during the latter 19th and early 20th centuries, became a learning center and kind of mecca for those blacks who were determined to uplift themselves and families, and S.B. Fuller, who believed that America's opportunities were not closed to blacks, could be called the guiding spirits behind Issues & Views. Washington, the educator, taught that opportunity was something you created, not begged for, while Fuller, the entrepreneur, put Washington's principles into action.

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The biography that describes the life and times of S.B. Fuller


S.B. Fuller's office building at 2700 S. Wabash Avenue, in Chicago, in the 1940s		The Fuller Department Store on 47th Street, in Chicago, in the 1960s

From the 1930s into the 1960s, by his own example, S.B. Fuller showed how best to rise out of poverty. He believed that this achievement should come, not through social disruption, but through the work of individuals who understood how to apply their efforts within the free enterprise system. Instead of blaming others for poverty, he taught that "the Negro must pool his capital in order to help himself." Fuller lived his own advice, thereby inspiring and helping others to achieve better lives for their families and communities.

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