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Born in 1933, Proctor died on December 19, 2018 due to complications from hip surgery. She was 86 years old.
Rest In Power Barbara Gardner Proctor
Despite being born to a 16-year-old single mother in North Carolina and raised by her grandparents in a dirt-floor shack that had neither running water nor electricity, Proctor was never the one to allow her circumstances to define her. She went on to earn a scholarship to Talladega College in Alabama, where she obtained a degree in English, psychology and social sciences.
While she made plans to return home to work as a teacher, her plans changed after she stopped in Chicago following the completion of her summer camp counseling job in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
"I wound up spending all of my money and didn't have bus fare to get home,” Proctor told the Chicago Tribune in 1990. “And in large measure, for 30 years I've been trying to get my bus fare back to North Carolina."
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In her unexpected career change, Proctor worked for the Urban League, DownBeat magazine, and Vee-Jay Records. During her time at Vee-Jay Records, she closed a deal that helped introduce the Beatles to America.
Then, after working for a few different advertising firms, Proctor went on to secure an $80,000 Small Business Administration loan and started her own advertising business, Proctor & Gardner Advertising. It grew into the nation's largest Black-owned agency within a six-year time period, reported the Chicago Sun Times...
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Born in 1933, Proctor died on December 19, 2018 due to complications from hip surgery. She was 86 years old.
Rest In Power Barbara Gardner Proctor
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