Research Catalog

Title

Portrait of an American businessman : one generation from cotton field to boardroom / Carl Ware with Sibley Fleming.

Author

Ware, Carl, 1943-

Publication

• Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fleming, Sibley
• Mercer University Press.

Description

xii, 293 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm

Summary

Carl Ware is an American success story. Born in 1943 to humble Georgia sharecroppers, he faced hardship while growing up black in the Jim Crow South. His father made history as the first black man to vote in Georgia's Fifth Congressional District since Reconstruction. Ware worked his way through college, taking part in the Atlanta Student Movement. Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., he rose to become one of the most influential business leaders and philanthropists of his generation. Ware was elected to the Atlanta City Council in 1973 and later served as its first black president from 1976 to 1979. In 1979 he was named vice president of Special Markets for Coca-Cola USA. He founded the Coca-Cola Foundation and became known as the company's "Daring Diplomat." As the highest-ranking African American executive at the Coca-Cola Company, Ware would become the architect of his employer's South Africa disinvestment and the first American businessman to meet with Nelson Mandela after his release from prison in 1990. During this time, Ware proved instrumental in the fall of South Africa's brutal system of apartheid. In 1991 he was appointed deputy group president of Coca-Cola's Northeast Europe Africa group. In 1993 he became the company's first black group president, heading the Africa operations. Retiring from Coca-Cola in 2003 as head of global public affairs and administration, Ware served on the boards of Georgia Power, National Life of Vermont, Cummins, Chevron, and PGA Tours Golf Course Properties, as well as the Council on Foreign Relations, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and as chairman of the Metropolitan Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. Now, for the first time, Ware shares his incredible and inspiring story and how he rewrote the rules for power sharing in America. -- From Amazon.

Subjects

• African Americans
• African American executives
• Georgia
• Black author
• Biography
• Biographies
• 1900-1999
• Georgia > Atlanta
• Politics and government
• Men
• African Americans > Politics and government
• Employees
• Coca-Cola Company
• African Americans > Georgia > Atlanta > Politics and government > 20th century
• Atlanta (Ga.) > Politics and government > 20th century
• Coca-Cola Company Employees > Biography
• African American executives > Georgia > Biography
• Ware, Carl, 1943-

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• Biography.

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

Daddy -- The Wares -- Prayer rock -- Sharecropping years -- A better life -- Buying the land -- Find a way -- Cradle of Civil Rights -- Meeting Mary -- Becoming an urbanologist -- Praying for guidance -- "Carl Cares" -- The 25-percent policy -- Bringing Dr. King's dream to life -- Coca-Cola University -- A better company -- "Leave no stone unturned" Temperature rising -- South Africa, at last -- An encounter with a spiritual icon -- The coke way -- Kilimanjaro -- At the Leeds Castle meeting and the Dakar Conference -- Meeting two south African presidents -- The making of Clark Atlanta University -- Becoming Coca-Cola's Africa Group president -- Inauguration of President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela -- "We believe in Africa" -- The Ware report -- There is life after Coke -- Just business.

Call Number

Sc E 21-60

ISBN

• 0881467154
• 9780881467154

LCCN

2019286562

OCLC

1109974535

Author

Ware, Carl, 1943- author.

Title

Portrait of an American businessman : one generation from cotton field to boardroom / Carl Ware with Sibley Fleming.

Publisher

Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Creator/Contributor Characteristics

Carl Ware: Gender group: Men

Sibley Fleming: Gender group: Women

Nationality/regional group: Americans

Carl Ware: Nationality/regional group: Georgians (State of Georgia)

Carl Ware: Occupational/field of activity group: Businesspeople

Sibley Fleming: Occupational/field of activity group: Authors

Carl Ware: Ethnic/cultural group: African Americans

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Fleming, Sibley, author.

Mercer University Press.

Research Call Number

Sc E 21-60