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"On an international stage, Ware was the architect of The Coca-Cola Company’s disinvestment in South Africa ..."

Carl Ware’s remarkable American success story, with foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, is a historical memoir that stands as a testament to one man’s ability to overcome hardship and change the world.

Growing up one of 12 children in the Jim Crow South, the son of sharecroppers, Carl Ware learned his most important lessons in courage, ethics and business from his father, Ulas B. Ware, the first African American to vote in Georgia’s Fifth Congressional District since Reconstruction.

Despite growing up against a backdrop of lynchings and segregation, Ware’s parents taught him to never be afraid and to never be ashamed of his circumstances. Nurtured by a strong family and anchored in the spiritual community of Oak Grove Baptist Church, Ware worked his way through Clark College in Atlanta, Georgia where he took part in the Atlanta Student Movement.

In 1973, he was elected to the Atlanta City Council and served as its first black president from 1976 to 1979 with Maynard Jackson, the city’s first black mayor, ushering in a new era of economic power sharing.

On an international stage, Ware was the architect of The Coca-Cola Company’s disinvestment in South Africa, a role he was uniquely suited for and executed working with an international cast of business and political leaders, from The Coca-Cola Company’s legendary dynamic duo of Roberto Goizueta and Don Keough to South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu and President Nelson Mandela.

In 2011, The Wall Street Journal published a story grading board directors by stock price citing Ware for his significant contribution to the bottom lines of both Cummins and Chevron.

Available in Hardback and e-Book

Carl Ware’s remarkable American success story, with foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, is a historical memoir that stands as a testament to one man’s ability to overcome hardship and change the world.

Growing up one of 12 children in the Jim Crow South, the son of sharecroppers, Carl Ware learned his most important lessons in courage, ethics and business from his father, Ulas B. Ware, the first African American to vote in Georgia’s Fifth Congressional District since Reconstruction.

Despite growing up against a backdrop of lynchings and segregation, Ware’s parents taught him to never be afraid and to never be ashamed of his circumstances. Nurtured by a strong family and anchored in the spiritual community of Oak Grove Baptist Church, Ware worked his way through Clark College in Atlanta, Georgia where he took part in the Atlanta Student Movement.

In 1973, he was elected to the Atlanta City Council and served as its first black president from 1976 to 1979 with Maynard Jackson, the city’s first black mayor, ushering in a new era of economic power sharing.

On an international stage, Ware was the architect of The Coca-Cola Company’s disinvestment in South Africa, a role he was uniquely suited for and executed working with an international cast of business and political leaders, from The Coca-Cola Company’s legendary dynamic duo of Roberto Goizueta and Don Keough to South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu and President Nelson Mandela.

In 2011, The Wall Street Journal published a story grading board directors by stock price citing Ware for his significant contribution to the bottom lines of both Cummins and Chevron.

Available in Hardback and e-Book

"On an international stage, Ware was the architect of The Coca-Cola Company’s disinvestment in South Africa ..."