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Harriet Center Construction Is Under Way

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August
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1993
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Commerce Center Set To Be Built

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1991
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Commerce Center To Break Ground

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May
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1991
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Cheers For Chandler

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1991
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Networks For Women

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1989
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Techinical, Ambitious...And Black

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AACHM Oral History: Johnny Barfield

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Johnny W. Barfield was born February 8, 1927, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. As a child he sold soap house to house and, after tenth grade, joined the U.S. Army where he served in France and Germany. After leaving the Army in 1947, Mr. Barfield became a wall washer for the University of Michigan, where hard work, entrepreneurship, and innovation helped him build the largest cleaning business in Ann Arbor. Mr. Barfield is widely recognized for his philanthropic work and support of the African American and business communities.