T wearing it conspicuously right out front. A banned customer, or one reluctant to risk a confrontation by going back inside, could return to claim his property from Mr. His wearing of gold neck chains and other jewelry was the result of customers losing the items or leaving them behind at the night club after a fight. It was at this time that he created the persona of Mr. Tureaud next worked as a bouncer at the Rush Street club Dingbats Discotheque. After his discharge in the late 1970s, he tried out for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League, but failed to make the team due to a knee injury. He then enlisted in the United States Army in 1975 and served in the Military Police Corps. He later said it was here that he discovered a gift for helping children. Īfter Tureaud left Prairie View A&M, he worked as a gym instructor for a government program in Chicago. He won a football scholarship to Prairie View A&M University, where he majored in mathematics, but was expelled after his first year. While at Dunbar he became the citywide wrestling champion two years in a row. Tureaud attended Dunbar Vocational High School, where he played football, wrestled, and studied martial arts. Tureaud as a senior in high school (1970) T, so the first word out of everybody's mouth is "Mr." So I questioned myself: "What does a black man have to do before he's given respect as a man?" So when I was 18 years old, when I was old enough to fight and die for my country, old enough to drink, old enough to vote, I said I was old enough to be called a man. I think about my father being called 'boy', my uncle being called 'boy', my brother, coming back from Vietnam and being called 'boy'. T., was based upon his childhood impressions regarding the lack of respect from white people for his family: In 1970, he legally changed his last name to T. After his father left when he was five, he shortened his name to Lawrence Tero. His father, Nathaniel Tureaud, was a minister. Tureaud, with his four sisters and seven brothers, grew up in a three-room apartment in the Robert Taylor Homes.
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