Joan Betty Henderson Johnson
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And then to Memphis, to St.
You know, just market by market.
Black is beautiful, and what God gave you is good enough.
We got on it right away, and we came out with a great product called Afrosheen.
I got a call from Dr. King in October.
Asking me for an appointment in November.
To visit me that day, he let me know they couldn't make payroll.
We had just put up a 30,000 square foot new headquarters.
He looked up at the building and he said, this is Black power.
And Independence Bank loaned him over $100,000.
What was his response?
I went and I saw it, and I liked it.
It lost everything that I saw when I saw it in person.
So I had a 30-minute color pilot made.
One guy at the end of one end of the hall would say, one, two, one, sorry.
And the guy at the other end of the hall would say,