In the early 1960s, the ad world had a one-size-fits-all philosophy. Now marketing is precisely targeted. Tom Burrell, the first black man in Chicago advertising, started that shift.
Today on the show, the story of the man who changed the way people think about advertising and how advertising thinks about us.
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