Ofield dukes biography definition

The chances of Ofield Dukes making it into a public relations textbook, much less a history book, were slim—as is the case with many African American history makers.

That’s why the public relations pioneer decided to craft his autobiography in the years before his death, this time, instead of telling another’s story, telling his own, his way, with the hopes that it would one day impact those who’ve never heard his name.

Ofield, The Autobiography of Public Relations Man Ofield Dukes (PRMuseumPress, LLC) is the first book to cover any black public relations professional and the first to cover Dukes, the Alabama-born storyteller whose humble beginnings as a paperboy and college journalist eventually led to him becoming one of the nation’s most successful African American public relations practitioners, working with acclaimed names such as Coretta S