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Clinton Galloway was born in Birmingham, Alabama, but soon after he and his family moved to New York City. He attended college at Northern Arizona University on a baseball scholarship. In the late 1970s, after getting his CPA license, he moved from a large international accounting firm in San Francisco to a Beverly Hills investment bank.
Seeing the violence, poverty, and lack of education that were prevalent in South Central Los Angeles made Clinton and his brother, Carl, realize that they should try to make a difference for the area’s residents.
In the early 1980s cable television could be that difference. Cable would create jobs in L.A.’s poorest community and – with the right programming – could create better futures for its challenged residents. Clinton and Carl would devote their lives to making things better.
After more than a decade of work, a trip to the U.S. Supreme Court, and several small victories along the way, Clinton and his brother were unsuccessful. To make matters worse, in 1993, the U.S. Congress passed a law stating that regardless of the civil rights violations that had occurred during the cable television franchising - yes, there were many - there would be no damages allowed against any city in the United States. This new law virtually terminated Clinton and Carl’s case and ended their cable TV journey. Corporations had shown their immense power over our government.
It was then that Clinton first considered writing a book chronicling their journey, but years of health issues in the family followed. The book was put on the back burner.
Eventually, in Carl’s final days (he died from leukemia in 2008), he convinced Clinton to move ahead with the book. Clinton shares their story in Anatomy of a Hustle: Cable Comes to South Central L.A. (Oct 2012).
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