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Article: THE FAMILY BUSINESS; BLACK-OWNED BUSINESSES STILL SCARCE

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October 5, 2003
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Owners site discrimination, access to money as problems

DAYTON - In October 1910, Joseph Walter Shaw, a skilled tailor from South Carolina, left his day job as a train servant and opened Shaw Cleaners in an old building at 620 W. Fifth St.

As Shaw's business grew, he could afford to send his son Joseph Whitfield Shaw to Howard University and Ohio State University. After college, the younger Shaw came back to lead the family business.

Following suit, Whitfield Shaw sent his son Joseph Whitfield Shaw II to college, and he came back to work the family business, as did Whitfield Shaw II's sons, Joseph Whitfield Shaw III and Chris Shaw. Shaw Cleaners remains a family-owned and operated business ...

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