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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Building the black metropolis. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017] (DLC) 2017022585 |
Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert E Weems; Jason Chambers |
ISBN: | 9780252041426 0252041429 9780252082948 025208294X 9780252050022 0252050029 |
OCLC Number: | 983824364 |
Description: | 263 pages ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Early Black Chicago entrepreneurial and business activities from the frontier era to the Great Migration : the nexus of circumstance and initiative / Christopher Robert Reed -- Robert Sengstacke Abbott, 1868-1940 / Myiti Sengstacke Rice -- The rise and fall of Jesse Binga, a Black Chicago financial wizard / Robert Howard -- Contested terrain : P.W. Chavers, Anthony Overton, and the founding of the Douglass National Bank / Robert E. Weems Jr. -- King of selling : the rise and fall of S.B. Fuller / Clovis E. Semmes -- A master strategist : John H. Johnson and the development of Chicago as a center for Black business enterprise / Jason P. Chambers -- Jim Crow organized crime : Black Chicago's underground economy in the twentieth century / Will Cooley -- The politics of the drive-thru window : Chicago's Black McDonald's operators and the demands of community / Marcia Chatelain -- Positive realism : Tom Burrell and the development of Chicago as a center for Black-owned advertising agencies / Jason P. Chambers -- Oprah Winfrey : the tycoon / Juliet E. Walker -- Racial desegregation and Black Chicago business : the case studies of the Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Company and the Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company / Robert E. Weems Jr. |
Series Title: | New Black studies series. |
Other Titles: | African American entrepreneurship in Chicago |
Responsibility: | edited by Robert E. Weems Jr. and Jason P. Chambers. |
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"A major contribution on the Black Metropolis as a black business movement, a black public sphere, and visions of freedom in the city."--Quincy T. Mills, author of Cutting Along the Color Line: Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America "Weems (Wichita State) and Chambers (Univ. of Illinois) provide a detailed look into the forces and people who shaped Chicago's black business and metropolis since the 1800s. . . . Recommended."--Choice "Building the Black Metropolis is an insightful and informative book that will appeal to a wide general audience, and hopefully all who read it will be inspired to continue to support African American entrepreneurs and their ongoing business ventures throughout the country." --Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society "Building the Black Metropolis is a solid collection. Taken as a whole, these essays reveal how racial segregation has created inequality, generation after generation--and the limits of racial solidarity to overcome it." --Journal of American History "A work that examines history in its own skin. At a time when scholarship is praising immigrant entrepreneurship in America, it is great to see a book that says, 'Black America has been there, done that, and got the T-Shirt.' A work that should bind the past with the future because it recreates a model of business success that holds the key to the future. An American Story well done."--John Sibley Butler, author of Entrepreneurship and Self-Help Among Black Americans: A Reconsideration of Race and Economics Read more...

