UID:
almafu_9959276654702883
Format:
1 online resource (263 pages).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-252-05002-9
Series Statement:
The new black studies series
Note:
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 Century -- 8. 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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-252-08294-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-252-04142-9
Language:
English
