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Harold Pierce

CTL-E-3956 · Person · businessperson · 1917–1988

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African American entrepreneur (August 11, 1917 - March 8, 1988) who founded the Harold's Chicken Shack chain in Chicago on June 22, 1950; retired to Beaverville, Illinois in the early 1980s.

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Apartment houses and funeral parlor in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941
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