TY - BOOK AU - Weems Jr,Robert E. AU - Chambers,Jason AU - Chatelain,Marcia AU - Cooley,Will AU - Howard,Robert AU - Reed,Christopher Robert AU - Rice,Myiti Sengstacke AU - Semmes,Clovis E. AU - Walker,Juliet E.K. AU - Weems Jr,Robert TI - Building the Black Metropolis: African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago T2 - New Black Studies Series SN - 9780252050022 AV - F548 U1 - 305.896/073077311 PY - 2017/// CY - Champaign PB - University of Illinois Press KW - African American businesspeople--Illinois--Chicago--History KW - African American business enterprises--Illinois--Chicago--History KW - Entrepreneurship--Illinois--Chicago--History KW - African Americans--Illinois--Chicago--Economic conditions KW - African Americans--Illinois--Chicago--Social conditions KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4947089 ER -