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Lucille Morris
Lucille Marie Morris (born Lucille Marie Gant; August 31, 1934) is an American entrepreneur. Morris is the founder and former president of Tektron Industries, LTD. (April 14, 1978 - May 15, 1989), a family owned original equipment manufacturer, metal stamping plant. Tektron Industries, LTD. served as an automotive parts supplier to "Big Three" automotive manufacturers General Motors and Chrysler.

Personal life
Morris was born in Centralia, Illinois.

Career
Morris founded Tektron Industries, LTD. in Detroit, Michigan on April 14, 1978. She did not draw a salary for the first 2 years of the business's establishment. According to BusinessWeek (now BloomBerg BusinessWeek) magazine, "her hope was that minimizing overhead would quicken growth, resulting in $3 million in sales by 1982."

In an article released by the Detroit Free Press on October 4, 1982 titled "Black businesswomen fight for a chance," Morris stated "Being an entrepreneur makes you different right at the beginning. Being a Black female makes you doubly different. What makes you the most different is being Black, female and having the gall to want to get into business."

Memberships and Associations
In 1982, Morris was a member of the National Association of Black Women Entrepreneurs (NABWE), a Detroit-based organization that worked towards uniting businesswomen.