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Building the Black Metropolis: African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago

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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. Contributors: Jason P. Chambers, Marcia Chatelain, Will Cooley, Robert Howard, Christopher Robert Reed, Myiti Sengstacke Rice, Clovis E. Semmes, Juliet E. K. Walker, and Robert E. Weems Jr.

Table of Contents:
CoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Early Black Chicago: Entrepreneurial and Business Activities from the Frontier Era to the Great Migration: The Nexus of Circumstance and Initiative / Christopher Robert Reed2. Robert Sengstacke Abbott, 1868–1940 / Myiti-Sengstacke Rice3. The Rise and Fall of Jesse Binga, a Black Chicago Financial Wizard / Robert Howard4. Contested Terrain: P. W. Chavers, Anthony Overton, and the Founding of the Douglass National Bank / Robert E. Weems, Jr.5. King of Selling: The Rise and Fall of S. B. Fuller / Clovis E. Semmes6. A Master Strategist: John H. Johnson and the Development of Chicago as a Center for Black Business Enterprise / Jason P. Chambers7. Jim Crow Organized Crime: Black Chicago's Underground Economy in the Twentieth Century / Will Cooley8. The Politics of the Drive-Thru Window: Chicago's Black McDonald's Operators and the Demands of Community / Marcia Chatelain9. Positive Realism: Tom Burrell and the Development of Chicago as a Center for Black-Owned Advertising Agencies / Jason P. Chambers10. Oprah Winfrey: The Tycoon / Juliet E. K. Walker11. 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.ContributorsIndex

About the Author :
Robert E. Weems Jr. is the Willard W. Garvey Distinguished Professor of Business History at Wichita State University. He is the author of Business in Black and White: American Presidents and Black Entrepreneurs in the Twentieth Century. Jason P. Chambers is an associate professor of advertising at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author of Madison Avenue and the Color Line: African Americans in the Advertising Industry.

Review :
"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


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780252050022
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Illinois Press
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago
  • ISBN-10: 0252050029
  • Publisher Date: 10 Aug 2017
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 277


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