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008    170509s2017    ilu     ob    001 0 eng   
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020    9780252050022|q(electronic book) 
020    0252050029|q(electronic book) 
035    (OCoLC)986788623 
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049    GTKE 
050 14 F548.9.N4|bB85 2017 
082 00 305.896/073077311|223 
245 00 Building the black metropolis :|bAfrican American 
       entrepreneurship in Chicago /|cedited by Robert E. Weems 
       Jr. and Jason P. Chambers. 
264  1 Urbana :|bUniversity of Illinois Press,|c[2017] 
300    1 online resource (263 pages). 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    computer|bc|2rdamedia 
338    online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 
490 1  The new black studies series 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  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. 
505 8  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. 
588 0  Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on 
       August 24, 2017). 
650  0 African American businesspeople|zIllinois|zChicago
       |xHistory. 
650  0 African American business enterprises|zIllinois|zChicago
       |xHistory. 
650  0 Entrepreneurship|zIllinois|zChicago|xHistory. 
650  0 African Americans|zIllinois|zChicago|xEconomic conditions.
650  0 African Americans|zIllinois|zChicago|xSocial conditions. 
650  7 SOCIAL SCIENCE|xDiscrimination & Race Relations.|2bisacsh 
650  7 SOCIAL SCIENCE|xMinority Studies.|2bisacsh 
650  7 African American business enterprises.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst00799060 
650  7 African American businesspeople.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00799064
650  7 African Americans|xEconomic conditions.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst00799599 
650  7 African Americans|xSocial conditions.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst00799698 
650  7 Entrepreneurship.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00912787 
651  7 Illinois|zChicago.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204048 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
700 1  Weems, Robert E.,|d1951-|eeditor. 
700 1  Chambers, Jason,|eeditor. 
776 08 |iPrint version:|tBuilding the black metropolis.|dUrbana :
       University of Illinois Press, [2017]|z9780252041426|w(DLC)
       2017005983 
830  0 New Black studies series. 
914    ocn986788623 
994    92|bGTK 
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