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Profile: A closer look at Herman Cain the politician
Friday, November 25, 2011
Herman Cain. PHOTO/Isaac Brekken/AP
When Herman Cain entered Atlanta’s Morehouse College in the fall of 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. had just delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. During his first semester, four black girls were killed in a Birmingham, Ala., church bombing. Young African-Americans flocked to Dr. King’s call for nonviolent action or its more radical offshoots.
Cain steered clear of the strife boiling around him. The son of a chauffeur to the former chairman of Coca-Cola Co., Mr. Cain pursued his own self-advancement with steady focus.
“I wasn’t determined to make social change,” Mr. Cain said in an interview. “I wanted to earn some change…I wanted to make some money.”
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