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SENIOR IS ONE OF BIRMINGHAM’S MOST REMARKABLE MEN AND ALSO A LIVING LESSON IN BLACK HISTORY. YEAH FROM THE MOST HUMBLE BEGINNINGS IN NORTHPORT, ALABAMA. HE CAME TO OWN MANY BUSINESSES AND CAM TO INSPIRE COUNTLESS PEOPLE �������� 13’S JEFF ELIASOPH GOT A HEAVY DOSE OF THAT INSPIRATION TODAY. JESS JAMES LEWIS AT 96 WANTS TO GE EVERYONE’S ATTENTION. DON’T YOU? WE’VE GOT TO MAKE A COMMITMENT. MAN WE GO MAKE SURE THAT BLACK PEOPLE PARTICIPATE IN AMERICAN DREAM. HE CERTAINLY HAS RAISED BY HIS GRANDMOTHER IN NORTHPORT AS A SMALL BOY. HE WAS TAUGHT TO DO SOMETHING HONEST TO EARN MONEY. WE MADE SURE THAT WE ATTEMPTED TO ME A DOLLAR OVER THERE AND THAT’S HOWE MORE BOOKS AND WENT TO SCHOOL. MOON EVERYTHING AS HE RELATES IN HIS NEW BOOK ONE DAY. HE CAME HOME WITH A SACK OF FLOUR AND I CAN’T AT HOME. MY GRANDMOTHER ASKED ME WHEN I GEIT FROM AND I TOLD THE MAN GAVE IT TO ME. SHE MADE ME TAKE IT BACK. THE FAMILY WOULDN’T TAKE ANYTHING FREE AND HIS WORK. ETHIC WAS BORN. HE FOUGHT IN WORLD WAR TWO UNDER GENERAL GEORGE PATTON WHOME SAYS CALLED EVERYBODY BOY. I WAS TALKING TO HIM. I TOLD ME HE’S A BOY LOOK EVERYONE. AND FROM THAT DAY ON EVERYBODY I TALKED I LOOK AT A HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT MILES COLLEGE TOOK HIM WITHOUT A DIPLOMA. HE WOULD GO ON TO EARN FIVE DEGREES AND START AN AGENCY OF HIS OWN IN 1954. LEWIS WAS ASKED TO HELP BIRMINGHAM COCA-COLA MARKET TO BLACK PEOPLE. HE HAD NO MECHANISM. AND NO BLACK EMPLOYEES. NO ADVERTISING PROGRAM. HE CHANGED ALL THAT AND IN 1964 E SAME YEAR THE CIVIL RIGHTS. ACT WAS PASSED. HE FOUED THE BIRMINGHAM TIMES NEWSPAPER. YOU RECORD A BLACK HISTORY FROM A POSITIVE STAND FOR UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP THE PAPER GREW INTO A CENTERPIECE OF BLACK LIFE IN BIRMINGHAM. BACK AT MILES COLLEGE. HE RAN THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER AND GOT TO INTERVIEW GOVERNOR GEORGE C WALLACE AND HIS FIRST QUESTION WAS THE YOU ERASE. AND THAT SHOT WALLACE ADDING HE WASN’T BORN A RACIST. MAN, AND WHATEVER REASON I TALK I WAS TALKING TO ME RACIST, BUT I’M NOT. AND AN IMPROBABLE LIFELONG FRIENDSHIP WAS FORMED. THESE STORIES ARE CONTAINED IN LEWIS’S BOOK AS IS A PHILOSOY NOT TO MEASURE SUCCESS BY HOW MUCH MONEY ONE MAKES YOU GO SHOULD BE. HOW MANY PEOPLE? CAN YOU HELP? IT’S MISFORTUNATELY YOURE THAT’S MY GOAL AND WITH THAT. DR. JESSE JAMES LEWIS SEOR WAS OFF TO PLAY GOLF. JEFF ELIAS OFF WVT13 WHAT A STORY TO SHARE, DR. JESSE LEWIS’S BOOK ONE MAN’S OPINION TOGETHER WE CAN DO THIS IS AVAILABLE ON AMAZON AND THE FULL INTERVIEW IF YOU’D LIKE TO SEE IT WITH JEF