har-ms3770Millard and Linda Fuller Audiovisual Collection
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Biographical statement excerpt from the New Georgia Encyclopedia:
Millard Fuller and his wife, Linda, founded Habitat for Humanity International in 1976. Now an international organization, Habitat ...
... door salesman, selling silk hosiery and underwear, and later worked as a waiter while attending the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. His drive for wealth remained with him as he pursued a college education. ...
... economics from Auburn University in Alabama in 1957 and went on to attend the University of Alabama Law School. Expanding his entrepreneurial horizons, Fuller sold Christmas trees and mistletoe with another law ...
... student, Morris Dees, who became Fuller's partner. (Dees later cofounded the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights law firm and educational publisher in Montgomery, Alabama. The center's first pres ...
... ell; the couple had four children: Christopher, Kim, Faith, and Georgia.
Upon finishing law school, Fuller began an industrious career as a lawyer while also continuing to run the marketing firm. Wor ...