Title Building the black metropolis : African American entrepreneurship in Chicago / edited by Robert E. Weems Jr. and Jason P. Chambers.

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Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]

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Description	1 online resource (263 pages).
Series	The new black studies series
	New Black studies series.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Note	Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 24, 2017).
Subject	African American businesspeople -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
	African American business enterprises -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
	Entrepreneurship -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
	African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Economic conditions.
	African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
	African American business enterprises. (OCoLC)fst00799060
	African American businesspeople. (OCoLC)fst00799064
	African Americans -- Economic conditions. (OCoLC)fst00799599
	African Americans -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00799698
	Entrepreneurship. (OCoLC)fst00912787
	Illinois -- Chicago. (OCoLC)fst01204048
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author	Weems, Robert E., 1951- editor.
	Chambers, Jason, editor.
Other Form:	Print version: Building the black metropolis. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017] 9780252041426 (DLC) 2017005983
ISBN	9780252050022 (electronic book)
	0252050029 (electronic book)

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