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Building the Black Metropolis : African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago /
"From Jean Baptiste Point DuSable to Oprah Winfrey, Black entrepreneurship has helped define Chicago. Robert E. Weems, Jr. and Jason P. Chambers curate a collection of essays that place the city as the center of the Black business world in the United States. Ranging from titans like Anthony Ove...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
- 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.