Book ID: CBB776638578

Building the black metropolis: African American entrepreneurship in Chicago (2017)

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Weems, Robert E (Author)
Chambers, Jason (Author)


University of Illinois Press


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 267; tables, index.
Language: English

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. (Worldcat)

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Authors & Contributors
Gruber, John E.
Berlin, Leslie
Weems, Robert E., Jr.
Anschutz, Philip
Sedelmaier, J. J.
Remus, Emily
Concepts
Business history
Urban history
Businesspeople
Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship
Technological innovation
African Americans
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Chicago (Illinois, U.S.)
Western states (U.S.)
Baltimore (Maryland, U.S.)
St. Louis (Missouri, U.S.)
Ohio (U.S.)
Institutions
J.C. Penney Co.
Pennsylvania Railroad
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