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Article Excerpt
Bill Farmer, President and CEO, Jackson/Monroe Division of Time-Warner Cable, in Jackson.
All of his life, Bill Farmer has been a trendsetter, one who quickly learned how to overcome adversity.
The son of William Farmer Sr., a textile worker, and his wife, a kindergarten teacher's aide, Farmer grew up in a small house on a dirt road in rural Rocky Mount, N.C., during the Civil Rights era. He and his younger brother, Ronnie, were the first two African-American students to attend their elementary school. While in college at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, he managed the school's high-profile basketball team....
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