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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/983824364 Title: Building the Black metropolis : African American entrepreneurship in Chicago Author: Robert E Weems; Jason Chambers Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017] ISBN/ISSN: 9780252041426 0252041429 9780252082948 025208294X 9780252050022 0252050029 OCLC:983824364

  
  

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Building the Black metropolis : African American entrepreneurship in Chicago

Author:	Robert E Weems; Jason Chambers
Publisher:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Series:	New Black studies series.
Edition/Format:	Print book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"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 Overton and Jesse Binga to McDonald's operators to Black organized crime, the scholars shed light on the long-overlooked history of African American work and entrepreneurship since the Great Migration. Together they examine how factors like the influx of southern migrants and the city's unique segregation patterns made Chicago a prolific incubator of productive business development -- and made building a Black metropolis as much a necessity as an opportunity"--  Read more...
Subjects	African American businesspeople -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History. African American business enterprises -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History. Entrepreneurship -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History. View all subjects
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