How a rejected script changed Carol H. Williams' life

For an Advertising Hall of Famer, Carol H. Williams had an inauspicious start.Williams, who today runs her own eponymous agency with offices around the country, is best known as the first female and first African-American creative director and VP at Leo Burnett, which she joined in 1969.In a visit to Ad Age’s offices in New York—two blocks and 50 years away from Madison Avenue at its prime—Williams recalled a formative 1970 experience that helped shape her history-making career