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Progress Plaza
Meet Rev. Leon Sullivan, the preacher who raised $10M to build the largest shopping center in Philadelphia in the 70s
Rev. Leon H. Sullivan was a prominent figure in civil rights activism and a preacher who advocated for selective patronage among the black community. He was also one of the civil rights campaigners who popularized the term “Don’t buy where you can’t work” in an attempt to disaggregate the labor of major companies. However, in…
