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Kirbyjon Caldwell: everything I ever needed to know about business I learned while working at Caldwell's, my father's clothing shop in the Fifth Ward of Houston.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-DEC-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Kirbyjon Caldwell: everything I ever needed to know about business I learned while working at Caldwell's, my father's clothing shop in the Fifth Ward of Houston.(WHERE I'M FROM)

Article Excerpt
OFTENTIMES PEOPLE MAKE a big to-do about my MBA, for which I am very grateful, but the truth of the matter is that my real MBA came from the University of Fifth Ward, while working in my dad's clothing store. I grew up in Kashmere Gardens, a little bit north of Fifth Ward. My mother worked as a high school home economics teacher and a counselor, and my dad owned Caldwell's Tailors, at 3304 Lyons Avenue. It was almost across the street from the De Luxe Theater, one of the few that African Americans could attend during segregation, and right next door to Club Matinee, one of three places where African American musicians...

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