Army, where he attained the rank of captain. Graves graduated from Morgan State University in 1957 and joined the U.S. Despite the ridicule he received from other students for aspiring to work in the corporate world-which was almost unheard of at that time-Graves responded by becoming an entrepreneur, selling flowers on campus because white florists were unwilling to make deliveries there. Graves entered Morgan State University in 1953, where he majored in economics. His mother led many community activities, and his father was the assistant manager of the Overland Garment Company, an apparel firm in New York City. Both his mother, Winifred Sealy, and his father, Earl Godwyn Graves, influenced their son’s successful career. Graves, the founder of Black Enterprise, a nationally recognized black business magazine, was born on January 9, 1935, in Brooklyn, New York.
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