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Article: OIC's Sullivan, City Council exchange thanks
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- The Philadelphia Tribune
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- October 11, 1994
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Kendall Wilson
Philadelphia Tribune, The
10-11-1994
OIC's Sullivan, City Council exchange thanks.
By Kendall Wilson
Tribune Staff
He was there 30 years ago, asking City Council for help in acquiring an old, abandoned jailhouse in North Philadelphia.
Rev. Dr. Leon H. Sullivan, then the of Zion Baptist Church, vowed that getting this building to house a unique job training program would bring new hope to the poor, unskilled and unemployed, and would reap untold benefits for the city, the country and perhaps the world.
The rest is history. Since its inception, the Opportunities Industrialization Center, founded in 1964 by Sullivan and 400 African American ministers and riding of the motivational ...