ISBN:
0252050029
,
9780252050022
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (263 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
The new black studies series
Parallel Title:
Print version Building the black metropolis
DDC:
305.896/073077311
Keywords:
African Americans Economic conditions
;
African Americans Social conditions
;
African American business enterprises History
;
Entrepreneurship History
;
African American businesspeople History
;
African Americans Economic conditions
;
African Americans Social conditions
;
African American business enterprises History
;
Entrepreneurship History
;
African American businesspeople History
;
African American business enterprises
;
African American businesspeople
;
African Americans ; Economic conditions
;
African Americans ; Social conditions
;
Entrepreneurship
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
;
History
;
Illinois ; Chicago
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
7. Jim Crow Organized Crime: Black Chicago's Underground Economy in the Twentieth Century8. The Politics of the Drive-Thru Window: Chicago's Black McDonald's Operators and the Demands of Community; 9. Positive Realism: Tom Burrell and the Development of Chicago as a Center for Black-Owned Advertising Agencies; 10. Oprah Winfrey: The Tycoon; 11. Racial Desegregation and Black Chicago Business: The Case Studies of the Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Company and the Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company; Contributors; Index
Abstract:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Early Black Chicago Entrepreneurial and Business Activities from the Frontier Era to the Great Migration: The Nexus of Circumstance and Initiative; 2. Robert Sengstacke Abbott, 1868-1940; 3. The Rise and Fall of Jesse Binga, a Black Chicago Financial Wizard; 4. Contested Terrain: P. W. Chavers, Anthony Overton, and the Founding of the Douglass National Bank; 5. King of Selling: The Rise and Fall of S. B. Fuller; 6. A Master Strategist: John H. Johnson and the Development of Chicago as a Center for Black Business Enterprise
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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