J bruce llewellyn biography
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J bruce llewellyn biography
J. Bruce Llewellyn
American businessman
James Bruce Llewellyn (July 16, 1927 – April 7, 2010) was an American businessman who co-founded the 100 Black Men of America, a social and philanthropic organization, in 1963.
In 1985, he and a group of business partners, among them Julius Erving, Bill Cosby, and Shahara Ahmad-Llewellyn, bought a majority share of the Philadelphia Coca-Cola Bottling Company.
Early life
Llewellyn was born in Harlem in Manhattan, the son of a Jamaican mother and a Guyanese father.
Both of his parents came to the United States in 1921.
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After two years the family moved to Westchester County, settling in White Plains, in a predominantly white middle-class environment, though Llewellyn went to integrated schools. He worked in his father's bar and restaurant and sold magazines and Fuller Brush products.
In 1943, Llewellyn joined the US Army, where he served as a first lieutenant.[1]
Family
Llewellyn's sister, Dorothy Cropper, became a judge