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Joe Dudley

  b. 1937 | American entrepreneur

At The Bottom
 1953

Most people -- including Dudley himself -- believed he was heading toward a bleak future.

Born into a poor African American farming family in Aurora, North Carolina, Joe Dudley not only grew up in perilous economic circumstance, but he had the additional burden of having a terrible speech impediment that led most people to assume he was stupid..  Labeled a “slow learner” at school, he was held back in the first grade and again several years later.  Though his mother encouraged him to believe he could do anything he wanted, Joe Dudley instead accepted the impressions of others.  He slacked off in his classes and exhibited a bad attitude toward his teachers.  By the time he was a junior in high school, most people — including Dudley himself — believed he was heading toward a bleak future.

At The Top
 2003

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